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Up and away: high altitude solar balloons ready for take off

solar ballons

High altitude solar balloons deployed where clouds won’t interfere with their output may be the stuff of science fiction. But are they? At least one reputable research house thinks this is where solar panels should be, saving space used for solar farms for much needed agricultural land. All while more than doubling solar conversion efficiency.

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Paris climate talks: out of weasel words comes light at the end of the tunnel

paris climate talks

What do you think about the hoopla surrounding the signing of the Paris Climate Talks agreement readers? Happy? Deflated? A sense of the same old, same old? Or a new beginning for the planet?

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Goldman Sachs report recommends investors back renewables

Goldman Sachs divides opinion. There are those who say the financial behemoth may have engineered — and certainly profited from — the 2008/2009 Global Financial Crisis. However backers insist that the investment giant is an example of good old fashioned American “get up and go” and what’s a few billion between friends/taxpayers anyway. But this […]

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Tesla Powerwall vs. Enphase AC Battery

powerwall and Enphase AC battery

In terms of good marketing in Australia, two batteries stand head and shoulders above the rest in Australia right now: the Tesla Powerwall and Enphase AC battery. Both of which are due for mainstream release in 2016. (There are lots of alternative batteries around – many of which are worth considering – but this article is […]

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Do solar panels increase house value? 85 percent of Aussies think so

for sale sign and solar panels

  Australians overwhelmingly believe solar panels increase house value, according to joint research carried out earlier this year by Origin Energy and RealEstate.com.au and their optimism is backed by a number of surveys. The Origin/RealEstate research found that 85 percent of respondents believe that having solar panels adds value to the home. Having a PV […]

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New Sunpower solar panels to go from ‘crazy expensive’ to ‘expensive’.

new sunpower p-series solar panel

When SunPower talks, the solar market listens. This was the case this week as one of the globe’s leading PV manufacturers released their new line of SunPower solar panels. The company also gave financial forecasts for 2016, when it expects to “achieve revenue of $3.3 billion to $3.5 billion and gigawatts deployed in the range […]

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New Trina solar cell efficiency record smashes previous mark

solar panels on a roof and trina solar logo

One year after setting the world record, the world’s largest Tier 1 solar panel manufacturer Trina Solar has done it again. The new benchmark for Trina solar cell efficiency for a p-type polycrystalline silicon solar cell has skyrocketed from 20.76 percent to 21.25 percent.

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Do Electrolytic Capacitors Cripple Microinverter Reliability?

Part 1 of an interview with Enphase VP of Quality & Reliability: Ciaran Fox In my experience solar installers either really love microinverters, or are incredibly wary of them. There seems to be very little middle ground. Those who love them talk about their ease of installation, increased power output, flexibility of panel layout, panel […]

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The changing face of Australian solar as confidence returns

changes ahead sign

There’s a new spring in the step of investors in big solar as confidence that has been lacking during the Abbott years has been boosted following the Turnbull takeover. The level of enthusiasm for solar power in Australia — and large-scale projects in particular — has been remarkable. The removal of the anti-renewables team of […]

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How solar energy is revolutionising microfarming

a solar powered micro farm

The advantages of solar energy in rural communities is well documented. Particularly those who are located in more remote parts of the land and countries where access to the grid is difficult, if not impossible. For isolated communities in developing countries face enormous problems, both financial and logistical, to access centralised energy. To remedy this, […]

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