CTTV reports live from the Australian Solar Energy Society’s Solar 2010 Conference in Canberra, interviewing speakers and researchers who attended the conference.
We talk with various speakers and researchers in a series of vox pops asking them what they think of Australia’s solar future.
Featured in this Video are:
*Professor Ken Baldwin from The Australian National University
*Benjamin Sovacool [...]

CTTV reports live from the Australian Solar Energy Society’s Solar 2010 Conference in Canberra with an introduction from John Grimes, CEO of AuSES and vox pops with speakers and researchers attending the conference.
John Grimes speaks of the record number of delegates that have come to the conference as well as the great speakers and leaders [...]

Watch this web interview with Larry Kazmerski – Executive Director for National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States of America, who is flying into Australia this week to speak at the upcoming Australian Solar Energy Society’s Solar2010 Conference (1st-3rd Dec, Canberra).
Our Green Business Reporter, Giles Parkinson, asks Larry [...]

Watch this web interview with the Hon. Simon Corbell, Minister for Energy in ACT, who will be speaking at the upcoming Australian Solar Energy Society’s Solar2010 Conference. Our Green Business Reporter, Giles Parkinson, asks Simon for his take on the state of Australian solar industry, the current feed-in tariff debate, the flagships program, his ambitious [...]

Watch this web interview with Dr David Mills, one of Australia’s foremost world experts in solar thermal technology and founder of Ausra (now owned by Areva). Our Green Business Reporter, Giles Parkinson, asks David about his take on the state of Australian solar industry, it’s place in the global solar market, current policy and investment [...]

Solar Crisis Rally
When: 10am THIS THURSDAY (4th Nov)
Where: Sydney Town Hall
Follow AuSES on twitter for the latest campaign updates:
http://twitter.com/AUSolarEnergyS
Visit the AuSES site to find out how you can get active in this campaign:
http://www.auses.org.au/solar-crisis-rally/
Press release from AuSES available here:
http://www.auses.org.au/press-release-industry-calls-crisis-rally/

Tags: Australian Solar Energy Society, Solar, solar crisis rally

NSW Government has cut the residential solar feed-in tariff from 60c pkw/hr to 20c pkw/hr which is having an immediate impact on NSW solar businesses – big and small – who are already struggling with a 80-90% downturn in business and facing the prospect of having to lay off staff.
John Grimes, CEO of Australian Solar [...]

As reported on GRIST, the Bloomberg New Energy Finance has published a report which shows that the USA is on the verge of a solar boom… IF stable policy and a significant investment is committed to support the continued growth of the solar industry.
The United States is on the verge of a solar boom that [...]

A new report published by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change entitled “Shifting private capital” has ignited public debate brought to the forefront the impact Climate Policy clarity (or lack thereof) can and does have on private investment into the sector. Here’s a quote from an article published yesterday on EurActiv.com blog entitled “Tinkering [...]

The following article entitled “Who’s afraid of the green economy?” was written by Giles Parkinson for Climate Spectator (pub. 30th Sept):
Anthony Pratt, one of the country’s three richest men, rarely ventures into the public arena. As head of one of the country’s biggest private companies, he has no need to. But this week [...]