Posted by admin on December 27th, 2010
The Conventional Solar Power is generated using Photovoltaic cells and generated power has to be used immediately or stored in batteries for later use. Intermittent sources of renewable energy, such as solar power, pose a “storage problem.”
US and Swiss researchers has developed a device which can convert sun rays directly into fuel which can be stored for later use or may be moved to another location. This device uses a quartz window and a cavity to focus sunlight into a cylinder lined with cerium oxide, also known as ceria.
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Posted by admin on December 26th, 2010
The Sunday mail has published a news that Anna Bligh has redirected $100 million from clean-coal fund to solar industry. This is one-third of the clean coal allocation in the Queensland Future Growth Fund. Apparently this fund will be utilized for the development of two new commercial-scale solar power projects.
The $4.3 billion power plant in central Queensland has been dropped and this has been looked as a significant shift in Labor’s energy policy.
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Posted by admin on December 26th, 2010
The NSW Government is considering to provide subsidized coal for cheap electricity. This might result in pushing back renewable energy like solar power as the coal will be cheaper option to use.
The Nature Conservation Council has asked Australian Consumer and Competition Commission to find out breaches arsisng out of the coal mine development in cobbora.
The Coal will be supplied at the just $35 to $40 a tonne amounting to $1.3 billion. This coal will be supplied for electricity generation at cheap rates. These coal rates are much cheaper than using gas or any other renewable energy resources. The export market price of coal is $60 to $70 a tonne.
The Chief Executive Officer Pepe Clarke of Nature Conservation Council, NSW said that this will have significant impact on competition and it will impact uptake of clean, renewable energy sources.
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Posted by admin on December 23rd, 2010
As the locals are tackling with the global warming and rising power bills, it has been a sunny year for solar power sales in the Central West.
Australians have installed more than 100,000 rooftop solar panels over 2010 shows a report by Clean Energy Australia. This is more installations in one year than in the previous decade.
Central West Solar owner and manager Robert Biviano says that this year more locals have purchased solar power items than ever before and he said that “We definitely have had the biggest year in the last 10 years”.
He said that the biggest sellers in Orange in 2010 were the grid power connections for homes whereas locals wanted to take full financial benefits of solar power.
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Posted by admin on December 23rd, 2010
The industry’s peak body said that the SOLAR energy is becoming “the Hills Hoist of the 21st century” and the Far North is leading the popularity surge.
It is assumed that about 3000 jobs in the renewable energy sector will be created in regional centres state-wide by 2020, with Cairns expected to benefit thanks to an ideal climate for solar energy.
Number of households have now started using solar power because of increased affordability and government incentives, leading the Clean Energy Council to yesterday dub the technology “the Hills Hoist of the 21st century”.
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Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2010
The Federal Government has declared it will axe its Green Start program, this solar power program includes the assistance for a range of energy efficiency measures primarily for low-income Australian households.
Mr Greg Combet, the Minister for Climate Change, said the program, which was to have replaced the government’s watered-down Green Loans scheme by the end of 2010, could “not be implemented with satisfactory mitigation of risk.”
“One of the major risks associated with Round 1 of the Green Start program was a reliance on poor quality data on assessments collected under the Green Loans program. The Department found that these risks could not be mitigated to a satisfactory extent. This advice has informed the Government’s decision not to proceed with the program,” Mr Combet said.
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Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2010
New research shows that for the Australian consumers the renewable energy is fast-becoming an alternative. According to the Clean Energy Australia 2010 report released today, more solar power installations were done on rooftops between January and October this year than for the entire previous decade.
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Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2010
Around more than 100,000 solar power systems were installed in Australia last year which is more than in the previous decade combined.
The growth in industrial-scale renewable power, due to confusion for the policy that how the industry would be subsidized was “modest” in the year to the end of October.
Yesterday the Industry group Clean Energy Australia said that the rooftop solar photovoltaic systems were becoming the “Hills Hoist” of the 21st century, driven by generous state and federal government subsidies.
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Posted by admin on December 21st, 2010
There was a report released this year 2010 a short time ago by Clean Energy Council’s (CEC) Clean Energy Australia stating that more rooftop solar power was installed in Australia between January and October this year than for the entire decade previous.
This year over 100,000 solar power systems were installed in Australia compared to just over 81,000 for the period 2000 to 2009.
Maximum home solar power systems were installed and commissioned between January and October 2010 than the sum total of every other calendar year in the history of the Australian solar industry. Australia is having now more solar installations.
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Posted by admin on December 21st, 2010
The Lanco Infratech Limited (LITL) is going to build 100 Megawatts Solar Power Plant in Rajasthan, India. It has also received order from NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN) for development of a 5MW solar PV project. The 100MW project is under National Solar Mission.
The Lanco , said on Monday it aims to generate 200-300 megawatts (MW) of solar thermal power over the next two years. LITL is also working in power, construction & EPC, infrastructure and renewable energy.
Solar thermal is a technology that concentrates the sun’s rays to heat water into steam and drive a generator, while traditional PV modules directly convert sunlight into electricity, and make up the largest chunk of the solar market.
Lanco is also looking forward for offering turnkey EPC services to other Solar power developers in the country. The Lanco 5MW Project located in Patan, Gujarat is one of the largest solar power plants (SPP) in the country.
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