Tagged: solar panels

Solar Panels Lower the Loss - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jul 04, 2017 •

• affordability,
• affordable power,
• electric vehicles,
• Electricity,
• energy,
• New Zealand,
• Solar,
• solar panels

By George Jones Whenever electricity is taken from one place to another, some of it is lost, ultimately as heat.  In New Zealand, this waste electricity constitutes about 6 or 7 percent of the electricity generated; enough to power the entire Greater Wellington area.  In other countries it is usually larger, up to three or four times NZ’s percentage. The industry … Read More

How a global solar alliance can help developing countries - Guest Work

Guest Author • Dec 07, 2015 •

• climate change,
• COP21,
• developing countries,
• paris climate summit,
• renewable energy,
• solar energy,
• solar panels,
• Sustainability

Xavier Lemaire, UCL The International Solar Alliance announced by India at the Paris climate conference invites together 120 countries to support the expansion of solar technologies in the developing world. The cost of solar cells has decreased spectacularly over the past four decades, and the trend seems likely to continue. Solar energy has moved from a … Read More