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Iconic Auckland Museum Installs NZ's Largest Micro Inverter Solar Power System

Iconic Auckland Museum Installs NZ's Largest Micro Inverter Solar Power System

The Auckland War Memorial Museum is aiming to reduce their carbon footprint and help kiwis and visitors to New Zealand learn about the benefits of solar power.  Not only is this a(...)

Posted on in Solar Power New Zealand

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Photon Laboratory Solar Panel Yield Measurement Results 2013

Photon Laboratory Solar Panel Yield Measurement Results 2013

Photon is well known in the industry as a prestigious magazine and conference organizer. Apart of the Photon Group is Photon Laboratory, which has been monitoring the performance of solar(...)

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Preventing Environmental Damage by Recycling Solar Power Panels

Preventing Environmental Damage by Recycling Solar Power Panels

See our updated article about recycling solar panels here (written 2021).

The old energy economy, with its social and environmental impacts, has given way to a new, clean energy(...)

Posted on in Renewable Energy

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Battery Back up for Solar Power Systems

Battery Back up for Solar Power Systems

The brains behind the team at Solar City USA have teamed up with revolutionary thinkers and move makers at the electric car company Telsa. A match made in heaven? It could well be.

Together, these two inspiring company's have developed modern day technologies(...)

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Tiering it up! The Solar Panel Rating System

Tiering it up! The Solar Panel Rating System

In case you hadn't noticed, solar power is becoming more and more acceptable within society as a viable, reliable, clean and dollar saving energy resource. You could be excused for(...)

Posted on in How Solar Power Works

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Top 4 Electric Bikes of 2014

Top 4 Electric Bikes of 2014

View updated 2016 article on Ecobob.co.nzCommon green thinking has seen many motorists return to the streets and motorways riding upon a scooters / mopeds that with there small tanks and minimal speeds have a much lesser effect of carbon emissions on the environment(...)

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Solar Power Self-Consumption - The Facts!

Solar Power Self-Consumption - The Facts!

What is solar power self-consumption?

Solar power self-consumption is when your solar power system is creating electricity and you are using that power directly for your(...)

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Green Party's Solar Power Homes Policy Launch

Green Party's Solar Power Homes Policy Launch

Could the time for free energy for New Zealanders be drawing closer?

The recent solar power policy annoucement by the Green Party in New Zealand is an initiative that proposes,(...)

Posted on in New Zealand Solar Legislation

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