New Report Reveals Renewable Energy’s Minor Role In Electricity Prices
The rumour that solar power is the major culprit in electricity price rises is persistent, pervasive, damaging – and baseless. A new report from independent energy market analysts again shoots down the vicious lies and misconceptions that threaten Australia’s clean and renewable energy future.
Energy Matters Video News – Episode 25 – March 9, 2011
In this episode, Virginia covers a proposal to tax coal fired power to pay for NSW’s Solar Bonus scheme, the heated debate on a carbon price for Australia, a new web site that tracks coal’s creep across Victoria and how a carbon price could boost regional renewable energy jobs.
FPL Celebrates World’s First Hybrid Solar Farm
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) celebrated the official opening of the first major hybrid solar power installation in the world on the weekend – the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center.
Australia Slips In Renewable Energy Attractiveness Rankings
The latest Ernst & Young’s global Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices shows that while clean energy reached record levels in 2010, some countries and sectors struggled in the prevailing economic and policy conditions. Australia was among those to have slipped in the rankings.
U.S. Farms Embracing Solar Power
America’s farmers have seen the potential of potential of renewable energy to reduce their operating costs and over the last decade, solar power systems, wind turbines and methane digesters have become an increasingly common site in rural USA.
Tax Coal Power To Pay For Solar Bonus Scheme – Greens
The Greens say they would pay for a resurrected New South Wales Solar Bonus Scheme imposing a yearly tax on coal-fired power stations.
A Carbon Price Or Not – That Is The Australian Question
To set a price on carbon, lower pollution and invest in a clean, renewable energy future, or not? That, it seems, is the question occupying the political zeitgeist in Australia right now.
Solar Panel Designed For Desalination
It looks like a solar panel and it is – of sorts; but instead of using solar power to generate electricity, the Carocell from Australian company F Cubed purifies and desalinates water.
LA Solar Farm Will Power 85,000 Homes
Once maligned as one of America’s smoggiest cities, Los Angeles has cleaned up its act in a big way – and none too soon; for while a thick layer of smog may offer up beautiful sunsets, it tends to limit the amount of vital solar energy the city will need to reach its renewable energy target of 35 percent by 2020.
CoalWatch – Tracking Brown Coal’s Creep
A new web site that will track the expansion of Victoria’s brown coal industry is now live, exposing the true extent of the coal mining land grab in the state’s farming regions.