Chris Tracy often steps inside his garage to check on his new toy. It’s not a power tool or a fancy lawn mower; it’s an inverter box with a digital display.

Six municipalities in New York State could save nearly a million dollars in energy costs by relying on solar power, according to an audit released by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
The audit also found that these local governments could reduce air pollution by millions of pounds over the life of the panels.
“With the […]

As the states and communities in the Niger Delta region of the country sustain sundry hostilities on the petroleum industry, Lagos state government is exploring the economic opportunity of providing a safe, secure and congenial corporate haven for the energy industry operators.
In doing this, the state government headed by Alhaji Babatunde Fashola is targeting to […]

The Queensland government will bulk-buy 1,000 solar power systems to drive down the price for homeowners and tackle climate change.
The idea came out of the 16-member Premier’s Council on Climate Change, which met on Wednesday for the first time since it was formed in December last year.
The council includes industry representatives and environmentalist Dr Tim […]

Sydney, Australia (AHN) - A $420 million solar power plant, the biggest and most efficient solar photovoltaic power station in the world, is set to be built in Victoria, Australia. The construction would start next year, according to Victoria state Premier John Brumby.
The 54-megawatt power station, almost double the size of the largest American solar […]

Australia’s largest solar power station is to be built at Coober Pedy, in South Australia’s mid-north, to provide more than 10 per cent of the city’s electricity needs.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett said the $7.1 million project would feature 26 solar dishes, each one 14 metres high, to produce 1,860 megawatt hours of power each […]

Editor’s note: This is just the kind of thing that I love to see. And though their’s is a very small business with minimal energy needs, this same type of hybrid system can be used on thousands of similar and larger small business operations. That’s thousands of tons of greenhouse gases that would not be […]

While even the Bush administration now admits that environmental degradation is a fact, no concrete plans are being proposed to eliminate the very real problem of global warming.
By Larry Boudreau - San Antonio Express-News
So a comment by a friend, who enjoys reading the New Testament put the problem of greenhouse gas and the resulting environmental […]

Ontario is on its way to becoming a major centre for solar power, and will soon see thousands of solar panels spread out over acres of land, feeding clean power into the power grid.
Year-end numbers show an explosion of interest in building solar generating systems, from individuals who want to put a few panels on […]

One day nearly four years ago, it suddenly seemed like a good idea to give solar electricity a try at home — home, for me, being an apartment house in Washington Heights, alias upstate Manhattan. The price of electricity was climbing. A war was being fought, if not over oil, then certainly over the ground […]