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University of South Australia’s Trev to Travel World on Solar
A team from the University of South Australia is preparing a solar-powered car to participate in the first zero-emission car race around the world. The racewill commence in June where the competing teams will make use ofrenewable energy to cross 20 countries on three continents in about 80days. The vehicle, dubbed Trev(Two-seater Renewable Energy Vehicle), [...]
South Jersey Industries Completes Two Installations
Folsom, N.J.-based South Jersey Industries has announced that solar panel projects at two of its local facilities are operational and generating electricity. Thecompany has installed a 50 kW roof-mounted array consisting of 210solar modules at its corporate headquarters. The array is expected togenerate 60,000 kWh annually. The company also installed a 651 kWground-mounted array at [...]
Rooftop Solar Panels in New South Wales
Thegovernment of New South Wales has approved a gross feed–in tariff forrooftop solar systems, thus allowing households and small business whoinvest capital to build and maintain these systems to sell energy backto the electricity grid – at a premium. Endorsed by the Australian Conservation Foundation,the ACF says “this is a key step in tackling climate [...]
South Korea Embraces 2020 Emissions Cap
Todaywe hop over the waters to talk about Korea, but with importantimplications for China’s negotiating position in Copenhagen. Its beena busy news day in Korea, both North AND South, but it is the latter where I focus our discussions today in a post was originally published on Climate Progress. South Korea may not beoutdoing the [...]
South Korea wants to go green with solar-powered unmanned aircraft
South Korea’s military wants to go green and will build a solar-poweredunmanned aircraft from 2015. The Korean Agency for Defense Development,in charge of developing weapons, is taking the biggest green hand aspart of the government’s efforts to go green. Recently, the Ministry ofDefense said it will seek a 7.9 percent rise in its budget for [...]