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Schools and Health Centre will see the light

In June this year 3 SEIA Committee members visited Vanuatu to assess the need for solar equipment on the islands of Tongoa and Efate and they were not prepared for the amount of destruction they were about to see. Brick buildings were ripped off the foundation (photos above show 2 school buildings), iron steel trusses…

Greenpeace offers help to SEIA

Other organisations have come to the forefront, offering assistance to SEIA to realize the donations of solar equipment to Vanuatu. The Ratua Foundation in Vanuatu assisted with very important contacts, people with a solar engineer background and a very thorough understanding of the areas of need, requirements for delivery to those points and details of…

Australian Solar Muster on the move

Solar installers in NSW, Qld, Vic and SA raided their work sheds and warehouses in search of pv modules, inverters, regulators, cables and circuit breakers to donate to the cause and are packing equipment for shipping to the collection point.  Cash donations have also been offered to cover the cost of freight and shipping. RF…

Fight for solar’s future – Save the RET

 It’s crunch time for solar and renewables. Despite more than 80% of Australians being in favour of the Renewable Energy Target, the Federal government is trying to gut or axe it. On their return to Parliament next week, Cabinet ministers are set to decide on the government’s position on the future of solar and renewable…

Dinosaurs ruining the Solar Industry

“The Renewable Energy Target is under review yet again, with a real risk of dilution or complete abolition,” says Brian England, National Chairman of the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA). “In our letter to all Coalition Members of Parliament we have been very clear about SEIA’s concerns.” Brian England said: “SEIA as an organization of…

Federal Government set to cripple the solar industry

THE RET (RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGET) REVIEW AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR SOLAR INDUSTRY The Federal Government has had the solar industry in its sights for a long time and now that it is in Government it is doing all it can to cripple the industry. Its hands are tied until the end of June…

Meet the deadline or miss out

Save Solar Tasmania urges less haste in implementing solar decision Save Solar Tasmania today welcomed the government’s decision to extend the existing 1:1 feed-in tariff for existing solar PV owners until January 2019. “The extension of the scheme for five years is an acknowledgement of our case for fair treatment of people who invested in…

Tiny Structure Gives Big Boost to Solar Power

Princeton researchers have found a simple and economical way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the future of solar power. The researchers, led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, were able to increase the efficiency of the solar cells 175 percent…

Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes

To observe how winds move high in Earth’s atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews, blows around, and changes composition in response to high altitude winds – but scientists have no similar technique to study the turbulent atmosphere of the sun. So researchers were excited in December…

Can Oakeshott free us from being captives of coal?

“While many Queenslanders are still suffering one thing is clear, extreme weather patterns are part of the climate change pattern” said Ged McCarthy Chairman of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). “Doesn’t it seem a horrible contradiction for Prime Minister Gillard to help fund the Queensland flood levy with $500 million earmarked for renewable energy,…