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Cutting edge REC Panels donated to Wairau Special School

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Launch of the largest hybrid solar system in NZ

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SkySolar success with the largest commercial solar system in Canterbury

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Hybrid Solar the sweet spot for power independence

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Solar for business - Scarborough Fare Herbs

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Rent or buy solar - choosing wisely

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Contact aims to create virtual power plant
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Contact Energy’s solar and battery trial aims to create a “virtual power plant” which could help support Wellington in the event of a natural disaster. The firm has partnered with Wellington Electricity Lines, Wellington City Council and Sky Solar to install solar and battery units at about 25 homes in the capital. Chief customer officer…
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Our fearless leader Nick Freeman talks with Newstalk ZB about SkySolar and our current PowerGenius prize draw. Have a listen below.   See prize draw details
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Road-going solar
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Meet EVA — the latest racing car. EVA has an elegant shape, with aerodynamics worthy of any of the cars which race in Formula One. The difference is that EVA is solar powered. EVA is the vehicle produced by the Cambridge University Eco Racing group — a network of 60 students centred on the Department…
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The Giant Solar Show 2016
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At this year’s giant solar show, Solar 2016, the future of clean and cheap solar energy was discussed and displayed. The criteria for success of a solar future was based on the following continuation of five trends: The Germans and the Chinese are dramatically transitioning to renewable energy by government edict. This has massively lowered down…
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Study shows solar park's potential for farming
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Increase in energy demands and the drive towards low carbon energy solutions is seeing a rapid increase in ground-mounted solar parks across the world. Environmental Scientists at Lancaster University and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology monitored a large solar park and found that solar parks altered the local climate. Since the climate controls biological…
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Recent news in solar power
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Solar Impulse continues solar powered flight around the globe   Last week we brought you Solar Impulse crossing the Atlantic. This week, the zero-fuel aircraft is on its way to Cairo from Seville, Spain. It will take between 48 and 72 hours, depending on the weather conditions. Solar Impulse has been circumnavigating the globe for…
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Smartphone App helps point panels
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Bruce Gao, 22, from Canada has created a smartphone app that can find out the most effective direction solar panels should face. The app SimplySolar makes soaking solar energy up to 40 per cent more effective. The Star reported that Gao created the software when he was attending Canada’s Shad programme for exceptional high school students.…
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Solar powered spacecraft breaks record
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft breaks the record for farthest distance traveled using solar power. Juno travels at a whopping 165,000 miles per hour and will arrive at Jupiter on July 4 after a 1.7 billion mile journey. Juno will orbit closer to Jupiter than any other spacecraft, providing the highest resolution images ever taken of the planet. Pretty…
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Solar furnace melts through steel in seconds
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Say hello to this ginormous solar furnace. This 1949 giant Mont-Louis solar furnace can barbecue wood and melt steel in seconds. 1949 Solar Furnace This double-mirror solar furnace was constructed in 1949 by engineer Félix Trombe in the citadel of Mont-Louis. It concentrates the sun’s rays to melt anything that is within its 3,000 C beam range.…
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Solar powered plane crosses Atlantic
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Solar powered flight If you thought there was something solar powered technology couldn’t do, perhaps the next sentence might change your mind. The sun just carried an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. Early Thursday morning, Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard successfully landed the Solar Impulse 2 in Spain. The four-day journey began in New York. The Solar…
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Rent or buy solar - choosing wisely
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Do I rent or buy solar? The decision to rent or buy solar to power your home or business with solar energy starts with the desire to break from the energy status-quo. Rising power bills combined with increasing power usage for power hungry electronic devices, including EV’s, can sway you into considering solar. After all the energy…
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Solar cell engineers smash records
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Solar cell engineers just smashed the world record for solar power Australian engineers have taken us closer than ever before to the theoretical limits of sunlight-to-electricity conversion. They’ve built a solar cell that can harvest 34.5 percent of the sun’s energy without concentrators. The previous solar cell record of twenty four percent was held by a…
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