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Safety Bulletin – Floods and household solar panels
Safety Bulletin
IMPORTANT: Even if your utility has cut the power to your property, your solar power system still has the potential to give you a lethal electric shock if it has been affected by a flood.
Brisbane Retiree’s Convoy Behind 100kW of Solar
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A 100 kW solar photovoltaic installation was recently commissioned to sit atop a new four-storey retirement building near the city centre of Brisbane. Gold Coast Energy will install the system, operate it and help monitor the systems daily output.
Solar Power Meets Hawaiian Vodka
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Hawaii is leading the way in the production of environmentally friendly alcohol production with the Ocean Vodka Organic Farm and Distillery. Situated on Mount Maleakala on Maui, Ocean Vodka will commence operation this year using only solar power.
Hot Days Harmful to Home Solar Systems
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Soaring temperatures around the country recently are likely to be doing our rooftop solar systems damage. According to CSIRO Newcastle’s Next Generation Photovoltaics team leader Greg Wilson, most mono and poly-crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic systems use technology around 30 years old.
Clean Energy Investment Internationally Grim
As a result of industrial nations slashing green energy subsidies, clean energy investment slumped 11 per cent in 2012. Investment in technologies, ranging from wind turbines and solar panels to biomass projects, fell from $US302 billion in 2011 to just $US268 billion ($AU254 billion) last year.
Time to get real about renewables, says IEA
“When the urgency for change is so clear and the potential benefits of renewable energy are so large, why doesn’t the transition occur at the necessary pace and scale?
CEC Welcomes Renewable Energy Report
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The Clean Energy Council has announced that last month’s report by the Climate Change Authority reviewing Australia’s 20 per cent Renewable Energy Target policy is a welcomed tool which will help our country in the roll out of renewable energy.
Power-One Gives a Perfect 10
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Owners of a Power-One Aurora solar inverter and will receive a valuable bonus in January with an extra five years added to their inverters warranty.
Solar Powered Clothing Soon To Hit Catwalks
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An international team of scientists and engineers have created a fibre that can convert solar radiation into direct-current electricity – creating solar powered clothing. The silicon-based optical fibres are thinner than the width of a human hair, have solar cell capabilities and can be woven directly through clothing materials to create solar powered clothing.