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 [...]

According to Giles Parkinson in the Climate Spectator:
Australian policy makers show no signs of tiring from their unflinching belief in centralised power stations.
The article, ‘The new pillars of power’, looks at alternatives to this belief.
Giles cites the recent announcement by the City of Sydney Council to generate its own power through mini-gas power plants. The [...]

Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and Barry Brook have conducted a large-scale review of twenty-five studies of electricity generating technologies. Their central focus was on baseload generators, which account for 75% of electricity generated in Australia. The article from The Australian, Emission reductions are not blowin’ in the wind looks at what will happen next if [...]

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
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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/

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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 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 [...]