Solar & Renewables
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Clipsal solar solutions
Schneider Electric is a global leader in the design and manufacture of grid-tie and off-grid inverters for the solar industry. These inverters range in size from ... -
TrustPower and Siemens to build South Australia’s largest wind farm – Snowtown II
TrustPower has appointed Siemens as their turn-key supplier to construct South Australia’s largest wind farm at Snowtown using for the first time in Australia, world-leading gearless ... -
REC receives Global Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost & Sullivan for solar industry
Leading vertically integrated solar energy company, Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) has been honored with Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Global Customer Value Enhancement Award in the solar ... -
Solar energy and energy efficiency major contributors to falling power consumption
Escalating use of solar energy and energy efficiency are making a material contribution to reducing power consumption and reducing wholesale power prices across the National Electricity ... -
Carbon Tax making solar look even cheaper
With the carbon tax now operating and energy price rises kicking in, the economics around solar power are making it look even cheaper. -
Rittal focused on energy efficiency
Energy efficiency in machinery and equipment is one of the main issues facing industries on a daily basis. Rittal has demonstrated that there is still potential ... -
LED street lighting trial in 12 of world’s largest cities shows up to 85% energy savings
LED street lighting can generate energy savings as high as 85%, an independent, global trial of the technology has found. The program also indicates that citizens ... -
ABB electric drives save 310 million megawatt hours in 2011
ABB has released its annual estimate of the savings achieved by its installed base of drives. About 310 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electric power was saved ... -
Heliatek’s transparent solar films enable tinted windows to generate electricity
Heliatek has announced that its transparent solar films could be used to be integrated between the glass sheets of double glazed windows. These windows would look ... -
Breakthrough improves solar panel technology by 30%
RMIT University has led an international consortium of universities and the CSIRO in a research breakthrough that improves a solar panel technology’s efficiency by at least ...