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SunEdison to build 350MW of solar PV in Chile – at 9c/kWh
Chile’s National Energy Commission (CNE) has awarded 15-year power supply contracts to SunEdison for solar PV projects totaling 350 MW in the nation’s latest energy supply auction. The company will invest roughly US$700 million in building these projects. While 18 renewable … Continue reading
Christmas gift from churches to Tony – solar PV!!
Led by Tim Costello, a crowd funding appeal has raised enough money already for 12 panel solar PV on the Lodge, maybe even enough for Kirribilli too! >readmore> ClimateSpectator
UNSW sets solar efficiency world record using Australian tower technology
ARENA-funded solar research team at University of New South Wales records highest efficiency for PV system ever reported, over 40 % of sunlight into electricity, with innovative take on Australian-designed solar tower technology…in outdoor testing in Sydney, late October, using solar ‘Power … Continue reading
Look what we did on Friday!
On Friday, thousands of solar and renewable energy workers, solar owners and supporters rallied at Cabinet Ministers’ offices across the nation, in an unprecedented show of support for the Renewable Energy Target. >readmore> SolarCitizens
Sowing confusion about renewable energy
The Economist – “clear” conclusion that solar and wind power are “the most expensive way of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions,” while “nuclear plants…are cheaper,” >readmore> RenewEconomy with original at Rocky Mountain Institute RMI
Cleaner energy: a revolution that ordinary people can drive
Guess what the best-selling car in Norway is right now? Review of world climate change progress by Tim Flannery which is seriously optimistic. >readmore> The Guardian
Solar and air con – a marriage made in heaven
Improved efficiency already, with how and why government should back air con supplied with its own solar panels. >readmore> ClimateSpectator
Australia’s Redflow expects battery manufacturing deal soon
Here’s another example of commercialisation of new technology not getting a chance in its own backyard, the inverse of “not invented here syndrome”. All interest is from countries outside Australia, despite obvious market here for storage with solar power. >readmore> … Continue reading
How solar and EVs will kill the last of the industry dinosaurs
There’s been a succession of good omens recently but this one brings them all together into convincing good news. >readmore> RenewEconomy
Australia’s largest concentrated solar power plant officially launched
In Mildura, Australian technology builds 1.5MW system, 40 parabolic dish mirrors using ultra high efficiency(43%) PV cells as used to power satellites. Possible 100MW expansion in 2014. Projected 6.9cents/kWh by 2020. >readmore> RenewEconomy
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