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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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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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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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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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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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How far away is the electric car?

June 12, 2009

Solar Choice customers all have an interest in how solar and other renewable energy installations can also make sound financial sense. We know you’ll be interested then to learn of plans that a venture called “Better Place Australia” have to change the world by creating a network which enables the use of zero-emission cars.

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