Australis Solar News
Solar on track to becoming cheapest energy source, think tank says
Solar energy is set to become the cheapest source of electricity in many parts of the world within the next 10 years, according to a new report released by German think tank, Agora Energiewende. The [...]
WA wave energy project turned on to power naval base
The world's first wave-energy farm connected to the electricity grid has been switched on in Western Australia. The project by Perth-based Carnegie Wave Energy will provide renewable electricity for Australia's largest naval base, HMAS Stirling, [...]
Old switchboards – potentially dangerous?
Despite their charming atmosphere old houses can bear risks. Old electrical installations break down over time and need to be inspected and tested regularly. Cable insulation can fail over time due to heat, exposure to sun, [...]
Perth council to seek mandate on renewable energy for new homes
A Perth council is hoping to radically alter its planning scheme to require new homes to have their own energy supply. Nedlands council, which covers some of Perth's wealthiest suburbs, will apply to the WA [...]
Printable solar panels, one step closer to market
Australian solar power scientists are one step closer to making available a cheaper and faster way to print solar cells onto plastic. CSIRO's senior research scientist Dr Fiona Scholes said the technology was almost at [...]
Solar experts say Australian renewable energy investment being stifled by Government policy
One of the world's most advanced solar power companies has shelved plans to develop electricity plants for the public market in Australia because of the Government's apparent hostility to renewable energy. Solar Reserve, based in [...]
Technology, not regulation, will kill coal fired power
British banking giant Barclays downgraded the entire electricity-generating sector of the US high-grade corporate bond market because of the challenges posed by renewables and the fact that the market isn't pricing in those challenges. The [...]
Construction underway on huge solar power plant
Three hundred workers will be employed in the construction of the biggest solar power plant in the Southern Hemisphere, just outside the western NSW town of Nyngan. The 102 Mw installation includes 1.4million solar panels. [...]
Governments urged to back solar research push
Laminated roll-out solar panels and power storage within panels themselves are shaping up as future advances in harnessing the power of the sun. South Australia's three universities are combining their efforts to keep the state [...]
Go west in bid to cut power bills
Tens of thousands of households are being urged to put solar panels on the western side of their homes in a bid to cut power bills and rein in rampantly expensive peak-energy capacity. With solar [...]
Bill shock for WA businesses
Up to 21,000 WA businesses face a surprise 10 per cent power price hike from next month, in part because a surge in solar panels has reduced electricity demand and forced Western Power to lift [...]
Coal, gas profits suffer as business goes solar
SOLAR power systems are being installed by businesses at triple the rate they were a year ago as a glut of Chinese cells and rising Australian power prices combine to improve solar's economics and threaten [...]
Australia makes its first solar power million
More than two million Australians are now getting cheaper power and saving some half a billion dollars a year on their electricity bills, because of their switch to solar energy. The number of Australian homes [...]
Clean energy investment back on target
Clean energy investors have been given a boost today as the Federal Government closed the book on another review of the Renewable Energy Target, again concluding that the scheme is highly effective in driving the [...]
Do not spit chips over power bills: solar flares!
IT WAS Intel founder Gordon E. Moore who observed in 1965 that there was a doubling in the power of computer chips every two years. Moore predicted this trend would persist for another 10 years [...]