photovoltaic
How governments manage the transition to an unsubsidised market for rooftop solar will determine the fate of a $2 billion industry.
The massive increase in Italy's solar power capacity over the past 12 months puts the spotlight on the country's renewables policy – and illustrates just how quickly big solar can be installed.
Prime Minister Gillard has announced a partnership with the US to try to achieve grid parity for solar power. So can Australia help cut the cost of solar by a factor of four?
With Italy’s solar energy boom now invigorated by the renewed feed-in tariff scheme, energy efficiency-driven design is finally making its way to mainstream thinking.
Statistics from a report on the Solar Bonus Scheme show it wasn't the inequitable, middle class indulgence it's been painted as. So what, and who, really drove the decision to knock it on the head?
Australia risks being lumped with tens of billions of dollars in stranded assets in coal and energy infrastructure. All because planners cannot see beyond business-as-usual. But the energy world has changed.