NSW Govt Pauses Feed-in Tariff
NSW government announced today, retrospectively, that applications for the feed-in tariff will be on hold from midnight LAST night (midnight 28 April). No guidance has been given as to when new arrangements will be announced. [Edit August 2011 – the link listed is now dead on the NSW government website, but we now link to a progressive tally of the buildup to 300MW http://www.industry.nsw.gov.au/energy/sustainable/renewable/solar/solar-scheme/faq/customer
read moreCalifornia houses with solar worth more
Source: Solar Daily News just in : researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have recently used the results of a house pricing study to confirm what many have thought for some time: Solar PV on rooftops attracts the attention of buyers, and a premium. In the Solar Daily article, the lead author Ben Hoen elaborated was excited to be amongst the first to confirm this using scientific methods. “We find compelling evidence that solar PV systems in California have boosted home sales...
read moreBig Apple goes Big Solar
Solar energy solves problems from Tibet to Tinseltown – And now, the city of New York has found a unique solution to the problem of what to do with landfill sites under regeneration – cover the sealed landfills with sixty megawatts (60 MW) of solar generation systems. This installation is part of the ambitious ‘PlaNYC‘ , a vision for the type of New York citizens want to see in 2030. In announcing the solar project, Mayor Bloomberg highlighted that the solar installation could cut emergency generators dependence,...
read moreConergy Solar panels win again
Solar energy is taking off in Thailand, with Conergy AG winning yet another deal. According to this solar power article, Conergy has achieved an Asian milestone by signing up investors to a 17MW plant in the South East Asian nation.
read moreConergy racking used in massive 1.7MW plant
Conergy Corporate Headquarters, Hamburg, Germany: Conergy AG has successfully completed the installation of the Canary Islands’ largest Solar PV plant, being 1.7MW in total capacity employing 7,600 Conergy PowerPlus Modules. It is expected that the reasonably flat panel installation will produce approximately 2,600 megawatt hours of electricity per year. A feature of the installation was the Conergy Suntop III mounting hardware used by Greenforce Energy. More than 15 kilometrs of Conergy mounting systems, comprising both the Conergy...
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