News Updates.
17 February 2015
Tesla to enter home battery market
Tesla has a announced in PV Magazine in the USA that they are working on battery storage products for the solar PV market. Other companies such as...
5 January 2015
Solar Electricity for NZ biggest shopping mall
Sylvia Park in Auckland has installed New Zealand's largest solar electricity system on top of Pak n Save and the Hoyts cinema complex. Sylvia...
16 December 2014
Greens say power prices rose again in 2014
Never a year goes by without power prices rising. It seems to be the one constant next to Christmas celebrations. Full article in the New Zealand...
24 November 2014
Triple Finalists at SBN Awards 2014
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PowerSmart Finalist at SBN Awards 2014
6 November 2014
Changes to electricity buy back rates.
Recently both Contact and Meridian have changed their buyback rates in a response to the growing numbers of people and businesses installing solar...
23 October 2014
Get used to power cuts....
Probably a reality but definitely not the headline that Vector would have been looking for when their Chairman stated that their will be more...
24 July 2014
Solar Power for Schools
The Greens are hot on the solar promotion tour with them announcing their 'Solar for Schools' policy today in Laingholm. Solar and schools...
8 July 2014
Solar is winning
"As early as 2018, solar could be economically viable to power big cities. By 2040 over half of all electricity may be generated in the same...
16 April 2014
Solar power competes with oil
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Solar power competes with oil
11 April 2014
The disruptive potential of solar power
A recent study by global management consulting company McKinsey & Co. has recognised the potential of solar power to be a game-changer in the...
25 March 2014
Power to the People in NZ
Last month M2 Magazine featured an article on the changing face of solar power. Once criticised as being unreliable, expensive and “not...
25 October 2013
Technology's top names: PowerSmart - NZ Herald
Working in the Pacific over the past year has left solar power company PowerSmart with a successful large-scale solar project, a hearty tan for...
20 March 2013
Philippines solar potential
PowerSmart eyes ‘enormous’ Philippines solar potential; Northpower, Damwatch scope Southeast Asia work.
By Edward White, Energy...
3 February 2013
Lid blown on power price rort
By Susan Edmunds.
Consumers pay up as companies revalue assets.
Kiwi power prices have increased at twice the rate of most other countries...
1 January 2013
Ways to avoid sun, and capture it.
By Jamie Morton.
Sophisticated apps from Niwa forecast UV dangers and show the amount of solar energy available for power.
Real-time...
4 December 2012
Powering ahead with awards
Mount Maunganui solar energy business PowerSmart has added to its trophy cabinet with another three business awards for its work...
29 June 2012
New Zealand should be a leader in solar energy
NZ can be a leader in solar energy, but must act now.
Credit: BRENDAN WINITANA
OPINION: Japan is in a crisis. Since the earthquake and...
28 June 2012
Falling cost makes solar panels tempting
Investors are tossing up whether to invest in state-owned electricity company floats or install solar panels kits in their homes, according to the...
28 June 2012
New Zealand, 100% solar by 2020?
Series 2012, Episode 4 | 100% Solar
28 Jun 12 | 0:24:12 | Classification: G
Tim Wilson hosts a finale five-part series for TVNZ 7 with a big...
23 June 2012
Solar power has bright future
Image: Mike Bassett-Smith, director at PowerSmart
ITRAT BASHIR
Solar generation surged past wind power to become the renewable...
19 June 2012
Solar energy boom on horizon for Japan
Photo / Thinkstock
Japan is poised to overtake Germany and Italy to become the world's second-biggest market for solar power as incentives...
18 June 2012
Winter power price rises bite
By Nicholas Jones
Households will be paying higher power bills this winter as energy price increases made months ago bite in the cold...
8 November 2011
Pacific micro-state switches entirely to renewable energy
Tokelau challenged world leaders at the UN climate talks in Durban to follow its lead
John Vidal in Durban
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8...
