Massive Solar Power Plant For Australia
According to the Reuters News Service, “Australia is going to build the world’s largest solar energy plant.”The solar energy plant will cost about 1.4 billion dollars to complete and the project should...
View ArticleSolar Panel Scheme : terminated and to cost taxpayers $440 million
Since 2000, the the Solar Homes and Communities Plan started out as the Photovoltaic Rebate Program offering $4,000. The program was changed in 2007 and was receiving by then an average 153...
View ArticleHow to build a giant Solar Powered Oven
Follow these eight steps to making sure your house gets as hot as possible in summer: powered by nothing other than the sun! (Why not? It's how most Australian Builders design houses)The post How to...
View ArticleLiberal Hammers NSW Govt Over Solar Rebate Backflip
By Rich Bowden The newly-installed NSW Liberal Government has received widespread criticism for its recent decision to retrospectively reduce the tariff paid to households under the solar bonus...
View ArticleWhere are the visionary leaders that can make Australia (and the world) 90%...
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American to the moon and back before the end of the decade. No one had any idea if it was even...
View ArticleWhy the government’s direct action sideshow is a joke
Earlier this week Fairfax Media asked 35 top economists what they thought of the Government’s Direct Action policy. Only two believed direct action was the better policy. Thirty – or 86% – favoured the...
View ArticleThe gutting of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation: is Howard a ray of hope?
Just when you thought the gathering of the dark clouds of the new government’s blitzkrieg against renewable energy initiatives was complete, a tiny ray of sunshine bursts through the gathering gloom....
View ArticleSilex steals the solar show
Good news stories about the Australian solar industry have been as rare as hen’s teeth lately. With the taking of the cudgels by state governments to the highly successful feed-in tariffs (can someone...
View ArticleSolar intermittency can be managed: CSIRO report
The CSIRO have use good old-fashioned science to show that solar power can be used as base load power. But will that be enough to convince the anti solar mob who rely on hearsay and anecdotes?The post...
View ArticleBushfires, bloody hot weather and a brave new world
As I sit here writing this week’s rant, we are (it seems) in the middle of one of the worst heatwaves ever to strike the continent. Characterised by indecently high temperatures, bushfires and...
View ArticleStudy predicts Australian PV could hit 10 gigawatts by 2017
Sometimes the mind boggles at the sheer scale of the solar energy revolution in Australia. A recent finding by SunWiz, the respected solar industry intelligence providers, has pointed to a potential...
View ArticleWill Fergie’s inglorious exit herald a new era for solar power?
Well the dust has settled on the federal Labor leadership challenge that wasn’t with Julia “The Ranga” Gillard announced the winner after Kevin “The Piker” Rudd refused to show up for battle. Actually...
View ArticleThe dreaded Budget: How to avoid solar energy cuts
As the Federal Budget approaches, renewable energy supporters — including solar power fans — tend to get a bit twitchy. You know the deal folks, Julia “The Ranga Boss Lady” Gillard tells Wayne “The...
View ArticleSolar and the dreaded budget (Part 2)
All solar fans’ eyes were turned to the budget this week as Treasurer Wayne “The Knife” Swan brought down his sixth budget (gee doesn’t time fly Swanny?). So how did solar energy (and renewables in...
View ArticleWhat does the Rudd return mean for solar power?
The big news in Australian politics during the week was of course the return of the Queensland kid, aka The Ruddster, The Nerdy One etc. The Machiavellian machinations of the Australian Labor Party...
View ArticleBushfires in Australia: who’s going to talk about the elephant in the room?
A worrying time for your correspondent this week readers as bushfires, which have claimed well over a hundred properties continue to rage in my region of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. While my...
View ArticleANU and Trina Solar Panels smash solar efficiency targets.
With the start of the NRL (AFL just around the corner), the Spring cycling classics in Europe and as women’s and men’s football and others reach the pointy end of their respective seasons, its a case...
View ArticleBig Clive throws weight behind 20 percent renewable energy target. Or does he?
Well the big solar news this week was provided by a Big Man. Big Clive to be precise. Yes finally the message of sustainability, affordability and keeping the environment for future generations was...
View ArticleUncertainty in Australian solar policy rears its ugly head
One recurring, if unfortunate, theme of these pages has been the constant spectre of uncertainty in Australian solar policy. We’ve ranted before about why Australia should be led by more forward...
View ArticleWhat? Oz thrashed by Poms on solar PV installation?
We Aussies hate to be trumped by another nation in any field of endeavour. Whether on the sporting field, in battle or in the latest scientific innovation, we like to think we always “punch above our...
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