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 [...]

Could the US have been powered by wind and solar back in 2006? David Mills, solar energy expert, and former leading researcher at the University of New South Wales, will present his preliminary findings at the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES) Solar 2010 Conference next week. His research has implications for Australia’s solar industry and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A few cleantech stories you might have missed…
From Australia:
“Big solar’s big potential”, Climate Spectator, 16th Aug
This week, the Australian Solar Energy Society joined the Australian Conservation Foundation in calling for an additional 5 per cent of Australia’s electricity to come from ‘big solar’ by 2020.
That target would see the generation of around 8,500 megawatts of [...]

As reported by Giles Parkinson on Climate Spectator, “Big solar’s big potential”, Australian Solar Energy Society has joined with Australian Conservation Foundation to call for an addition 5 per cent of Australia’s energy to come from “big solar” by 2020.
That target would see the generation of around 8,500 megawatts of large-scale solar, and the construction [...]

Watch this interview with John Grimes of Australian Solar Energy Society to hear his views about the future of the Australian Solar Industry including his thoughts on grid parity, leaders in the solar energy Cleantech space and the Australian Federal Government’s Solar Flagships Program.
John Grimes
Australian Solar Energy Society
John Grimes is the Chief Executive Officer of [...]