SOLAR

4,894 articles

Tough year over, big opportunity ahead for renewable energy
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
Last year was a tough one for renewable energy in Australia, with the amount of generation, investment and employment in the sector falling substantially, accor...
Schneider Electric offers new energy storage and monitoring solutions
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
Schneider Electric Solar Business is proud to announce that they will be presenting their new energy storage offer, along with enhanced monitoring and control s...
Pinholes be gone say Japanese solarcell researchers
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have eliminated problematic pinholes in the top layer of next-generati...
Nyserda charts news ways to support Large Scale Renewables
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has announced submission of its proposal for new and improved strategies to support large...
Solar Impulse to be stuck for a week in Japan for repairs
Jun 04, 2015 (AFP)
Solar Impulse 2 will be stuck in Japan for at least a week, its pilot has said, after sustaining damage to its delicate wing while on the ground. The plane was ...
Solar Impulse gets inside mobile hangar in Japan
Jun 03, 2015 (AFP)
Sun-powered Solar Impulse 2, which has made an impromptu stop in Japan on its way around the world, was under cover in its mobile hangar Wednesday as the team w...
Rooftop PV installations to lead the way in the large-scale solar market
Jun 02, 2015 (SPX)
Trina Solar has said that rooftop solar PV will lead the way in the large-scale solar market, as it poses invaluable opportunities for businesses to achieve max...
Solar power getting brighter for U.S. grid
Jun 02, 2015 (UPI)
The first solar energy projects were sanctioned under a fast-track program that envisions enough power for 8 million homes, the U.S. Interior Department said. U...
Bad weather splits Solar Impulse team between Japan and China
Jun 02, 2015 (AFP)
Bad weather was hindering the round-the-world mission of Solar Impulse 2 for a second day Tuesday, with a support team unable to join the plane after its improm...
Crowdfunding Campaign for Golar: The Fully Portable Solar Panel
Jun 02, 2015 (SPX)
Prashant Shewa has been fascinated by solar power and has dabbled in this potentially limitless power source for the better part of 20 years; years before it wa...
Extra Space Storage Continues Solar Portfolio Development With Safari Energy
Jun 02, 2015 (SPX)
Extra Space Storage continues its mission to reduce its carbon foot print by adding 31 new solar projects with Safari Energy LLC. With Safari's demonstrated lea...
Japan airport readies for Solar Impulse unscheduled stop
Jun 01, 2015 (AFP)
An airport in Japan was readying Monday to welcome Solar Impulse 2 on an unscheduled stop after mission controllers decided the weather was not right for the su...
'This is not a race' says Solar Impulse co-founder
Jun 01, 2015 (AFP)
At the control centre in Monaco of the sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane, Swiss pilot and projet co-founder Bertrand Piccard explains to AFP why his colleague A...
Solar Impulse 2 over Sea of Japan, day after take-off
May 31, 2015 (AFP)
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft flew over the Sea of Japan Monday, almost 24 hours after it set off on the most ambitious leg of its quest to circumnavigate the gl...
Solar Impulse takes off for six-day, six-night Pacific flight
May 31, 2015 (AFP)
The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft took off early Sunday for a six-day, six-night flight over the Pacific Ocean, the most ambitious leg of its quest to ...
EU opens China solar industry dumping probe
May 29, 2015 (AFP)
EU regulators opened a probe into the solar power panel industry in China, the European Commission said on Friday, in response to accusations that Chinese compa...
IEA frets over renewable energy direction
May 29, 2015 (UPI)
Policy uncertainty and a lack of incentives leaves global renewable energy development far short of what's needed to abate warming, the IEA said from Mexico. Th...
Pew: Clean Energy Investment Shifting to Developing Nations
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
Investment in and deployment of electricity infrastructure is shifting from the industrialized economies of the Northern Hemisphere to the developing economies ...
Australian power company to penalise homes for having solar panels
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
A South Australian power company is trying to slug hard-working families with an extra fee just for having solar panels, the Clean Energy Council said Wednesday...
Local consortium to build 92MW solar power station in Kagoshima
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
Kyocera, K.K. GAIA POWER, Kyudenko, and Century Tokyo Leasing announced that the companies have made a joint investment in Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills LLC, a solar...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.