SunPower Foundation Donating Solar Panels To Greenpeace Africa
Greenpeace will use solar power to demonstrate the benefits of social entrepreneurship to a group of young South Africans in the build-up to UN climate talks in Durban later this year.
AGL Boss Now Clean Energy Council Chairman
The Board of Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) has unanimously elected AGL Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Michael Fraser as the new Chairman of the organisation – but not everyone is happy.
Join In The Search For New Organic Solar Cell Material
Here’s another way to get involved in the solar power revolution. Scientists want to recruit you (well, your computer) to help them search for new materials to make more efficient and cheaper organic solar cells.
SMA Celebrates 30 Years In the Solar Industry
The world’s leading manufacturer of solar inverters, SMA, has celebrated three decades in the solar sector and also inaugurated the construction of the world’s biggest inverter service centre.
DOE Grant For Solar Siting Tool
The impact of large-scale infrastructure projects on public opinion can become a political and economic nightmare for developers. Although it’s often big, destructive projects which raise the ire of the people, protests against the location of some large renewable energy facilities have also made the news.
Energy Matters Video News – Episode 46 – September 14, 2011
In this episode, Virginia covers a call to the Australian Federal Government to intervene on the issue of solar sector support, SolarSailor announces plans to build wind and solar powered unmanned ocean vessels, solar to achieve grid parity in Europe by 2020 and REC enhances its solar panel warranty.
Natural Gas No Fix For Climate Change
Natural gas is often touted as being more than a stopgap solution for coal’s contribution towards rising average global temperatures; but news of its climate change mitigation benefits may be somewhat exaggerated.
Japan Could Mothball Nuclear Power Electricity Generation By 2012
Switching to renewable energy would allow Japan to permanently shut down all its nuclear power stations by 2012 while maintaining economic growth and meeting its carbon dioxide emission reduction goals, according to a new report from Greenpeace International.
SolarSailor To Build Wind And Solar Powered UOV’s
Australian companies SolarSailor and Forgacs Engineering Pty Ltd recently announced an agreement to build wind and solar powered Unmanned Ocean Vessels.
Wind Turbine ‘Lense’ Boosts Output
A wind lense power generation system has been developed at Kyushu University by the Ohya Group of the Research Institute for Applied Mechanics that dramatically increases the output of wind turbines – and makes them quieter.
