Australia has notched up a new renewable energy milestone, with the number of households around the country to have installed rooftop solar passing the four million mark. Five months after it was first announced, NSW launches its home battery incentive, offering up to $2,400 discounts on solar storage and rebates to join VPPs. A two-year campaign led by the local community of the 2515 postcode has resulted in world-first pilot project. A community-led effort to electrify 500 homes in New South Wales has won millions in federal government funding, weeks ahead of its official launch in November. New research shows postcodes with higher rates of unemployed have higher rates of rooftop solar, because it provides energy certainty for those with job uncertainty. Flow Power is branching into the residential market with a "technology integrated" electricity plan – and a mission to "massively step up" how consumers engage with energy. More households expected to investigate solar batteries as a way to save on the cost of power rather than the cost to the environment, major bank says. Switching water heaters to charge during the day can soak up solar and make sure electricity supply and demand match. A new, real-world trial has put this technique to the test. Australia has notched up a new renewable energy milestone, with the number of households around the country to have installed rooftop solar passing the four million mark. A client recently presented us with a challenge: More than 2,000 properties that could have solar and batteries installed, but a limited budget. Here's what we found. A $15m large-scale solar and battery storage rollout across six regional Western Australia towns has been completed, with a final system installed at Norseman. Australians aren’t signing up to VPPs at the rate the government needs to meet its climate targets. Here's why – and what needs to change. Clean Energy Finance Corporation signs agreement with ING Australia to deliver another low-rate green loan product to fund energy efficient home upgrades. There is a range of creative carbon reducing solutions for lovers of gas cooking, and those who hate the heat from blowy air-conditioners. Clean Energy Council gets off to less than ideal start to its "new and improved" SRES product listing service, after badly bungling a registration on day one. Victoria makes good on its promise to add electric induction stoves to energy upgrades incentive scheme, in new push to get gas entirely out of homes.
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