Labor Gains Power – What It Means For Solar Power
It’s (finally) official. Rob Oakeshott has made his decision and Australia now has it’s next government – Labor, led by Julia Gillard.
City of Sydney’s Solar Powered Electric Car
The City of Sydney has taken delivery of what will be Australia’s first commercially available electric car – the Mitsubishi i-MiEV; which will be recharged using solar power.
Renewable Energy a Cash Windfall for Investors
According to Timothy Nelson, Head of Carbon and Sustainability Strategy at AGL Energy, last year USD250 billion (AUD273 billion) was spent on energy generation equipment and construction around the world.
19 Australian Energy Retailers Back A Carbon Price
As Australia’s political future looks set to be decided early this week, the nation’s peak clean energy body, the Clean Energy Council, has called on whoever forms government to set a price on carbon as soon as possible.
Solar Powered Probe To Visit The Sun
NASA has embarked on a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before – and it will also be the closest that solar panels have ever been to a star.
MIT’s Self Repairing Solar Cells
Self assembling and self-repairing solar cells – there’s something very Terminator about it.
USA’s Cash For Clunkers: A Lesson For Australia
The Gillard government is planning a ‘cash for clunkers’ program for Australia, with the cash to come from funding for solar power. Eyes have been on the USA to see how its program fared in reducing carbon emissions. The verdict: not so good.
Energy Matters An EcoGen Clean Energy Awards Finalist
National solar solutions provider Energy Matters and its parent company, Apollo Energy, have been announced as finalists in two categories of the EcoGen 2010 Clean Energy Awards Finalist.
Energy Matters Installs 200kW Rooftop Solar Power System
Johnson & Johnson Medical recently unveiled a 200kW rooftop solar power system at the company’s North Ryde facility in Sydney’s north west. The solar farm, one of the largest rooftop solar arrays in Australia, was installed by national solar power solutions provider Apollo Energy and its subsidiary, Energy Matters.
Historic White House Solar Panel On Road Trip
A group of solar energy activists from Unity College in the US plan to take their campaign for a renewable future on the road – with an unusual travelling companion: one of the original 41 solar panels President Jimmy Carter installed on the White House roof in 1979.
