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Solar Power, Chain Restaurants and power by numbers

August 30, 2010
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Solar Panels have several advantages but sometimes the incentives in place to help you get a start are not enough, but that didn’t stop Chipotle, a mexican fast-food chain-restaurant in America.

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Recap: Who is truly advocating Solar Power?

August 11, 2010
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As election day draws closer, the three different camps are going to be talking about each others policies and how they are trying to keep the best interests of the Australian public in mind. So what are they saying about Solar Power?

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Solar Conferences Coming Up!

August 3, 2010
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There are a lot of influential people talking about Solar Power and they will all engage in progressive and hopefully productive discussions over the course of the following conferences:

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Sunny Boy visits Solar Choice

July 14, 2010
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Solar Choice is committed to expanding our knowledge base, and sharing that culture of knowledge with you. While we work with a wide range of installers who use a wide variety of inverters, we also strive to learn as much as we can about the products they install.

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Solar Panels on your roof and where else? (part two)

July 9, 2010
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Earlier in the week we looked at Solar Panels in the Transportation Industry, this time around we will take a look at other commercial scale concepts/ideas that take into consideration the advantages offered by the different types of solar cells (mono/multi/amorphous silicon).

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Conventional and Transformerless Inverters

June 12, 2010
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Our earlier article, ‘Solar Panel Installations are changing!’ discussed the modern evolution of solar technology. As noted, one big change that may increase efficiency and lower costs is the shift from conventional inverters to transformerless (TL) models.

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Australian Solar Cities & Communities Growing!

April 26, 2010
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Adelaide, Townsville, Blacktown, Alice Springs, Central Victoria, Perth and Coburg are getting $75 Million dollars over 5 years to demonstrate high penetration uptake of solar technologies, energy efficiency and smart metering. So what have they done so far?

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Emerging Solar Energy Panel Trends

April 21, 2010
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The University of New South Wales holds the record for producing the highest efficiency solar energy cells and has had the privilege of holding this record for approximately 20 years, from the likes of Stanford University (USA). So when Stuart Wenham, the director of the UNSW program, recently gave his predictions on the future trends [...]

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Solar Power Update from Germany

April 16, 2010
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Solar Powered Germany : a shining example
 

The implementation and ongoing review of feed-in-tariff laws in Germany over the last 19 years has been hugely successful in encouraging solar PV installations.

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Australia’s Feed-in-Tariff debate

April 14, 2010
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To Feed-in or not to Feed-in: Encouraging renewable energy electricity production
The concept of a feed-in-tariff (FiT) has been around since the 70’s but it was only in the last decade we saw Germany pioneer its usage to dramatically increase electricity generation from solar PV.

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Solar Energy : UK FiT for action

April 10, 2010
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Solar Energy Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) for UK Households
At long last the clouds have parted and the UK has followed its European neighbours to announce a solar feed-in-tariff. The Clean Energy Cash back Scheme announced in February was launched on April 1 and will run for 25 years.  Householders will now be paid a rate of 41.3pkWh [...]

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The Manufacturing and Science behind Solar Energy Panels

April 6, 2010
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An introduction to the manufacturing and science about the solar energy panels that are on your roof already, and the panels that you are considering to put on your roof, and how they could impact your return on investment.

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ACT Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) Revision

March 28, 2010
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Important news for ACT customers only: Earlier this month a strategical recommendation was made by the Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission (ICRC in Canberra) that would directly affect the investment appetite for people who want to install solar energy panels on their roofs.

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What is Environmental Performance Disclosure?

March 25, 2010
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Yet another reason to go solar!
In the second half of this year mandatory disclosure will be introduced for commercial office buildings with a leasable space over 2000 square metres. Environmental Performance Disclosure will then be phased in for all residential premises across all Australian states and territories by May 2011. So………

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Tax implications of going Solar!

March 19, 2010
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The Australian Tax Office [ATO] has released its findings regarding the treatment of income generated from selling electricity back to the grid.

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REC prices to be guaranteed at $40 from 01 Jan 2011

March 2, 2010
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On Friday the 27th of February the Minister for Climate Change announced some very positive changes to the prices of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). The changes will simplify and gaurantee the Solar Credits rebate which significantly lowers the cost of installing solar PV cells.

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NSW feed-in tariff loophole to be closed

January 20, 2010
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A loophole in the NSW Solar Bonus Scheme (the states feed-in tariff) that allowed energy retailers to only offer credit instead of cash will be closed.
The NSW Energy Minister, John Robertson, said via a spokesman that ”if retailers are found to be acting unfairly we will not hesitate to introduce regulations to ensure consumers are protected.”

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Make the Right Solar Choice – article in the Green Times

January 14, 2010
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The following article, by Michael Salvatico, appeared in the Green Times. It talks about the service offering of Solar Choice and that fact that we are a carbon negative operation, through our partnership and status as a Climakind gold member.

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Solar energy is lighting the way – article in the Western Advocate

January 14, 2010
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The following article, by Louise Eddy, appeared in today’s Western Advocate. It talks about a major solar installation that Solar Choice brokered in Western NSW that will produce enough power to service 4 homes.

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Steel beam solar cells? A technology of the future

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Imagine being in a sky scraper where the huge glass windows and steel beams act as solar cells, soaking up the sun’s light and generating electricity. This is exactly the vision of one Australian company, Dyesol, which is commercialising dye-sensitised solar cell technology. 

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Solar powered plane set to circumnavigate the globe

January 6, 2010
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In 1903 two audacious young men set human kind into a new era with their bold attempt at flight. They were the Wright brothers, and their pioneering invention, which got of the ground for all of three seconds, now allows people to seamlessly travel around the world in hours rather than weeks.
It is through bold [...]

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