Households
After a true “solar coaster” of a year, the team at One Step Off The Grid is taking a break. Season’s greetings and see you all in 2021!
Households
Australia ranked as country with world’s highest installed solar PV capacity per capita – at roughly 644W per person – in latest global stocktake by International Energy Agency.
Communities
Enova Community Energy names Kurri Kurri, in NSW Hunter Region, as the site for its first “shared battery” – a part of the retailer’s peer-to-peer solar trading trial.
Households
Australia’s rooftop solar market just keeps on punching, delivering growth of more than 10% in November and setting a new record to round out 2020.
Off-Grid
Hybrid Systems-built solar, battery and diesel microgrid proves able to go ‘hydrocarbon free’ during the day, and run a W.A. clay mine on solar only.
Households
Solar Victoria says new injection of state government funds to hugely popular Solar Homes scheme will help meet record new demand for residential solar and batteries.
Households
UK-based green power retailer launches in Australia with promise of 40c/kWh solar feed-in tariff and “cutting-edge” virtual power plant technology that will optimise battery storage ROI and power bill savings.
Off-Grid
New documentary TV series tells story of how a solar and battery storage system went off-grid and into battle to help save a house and its nine occupants from the devastating bushfires that ravaged Kangaroo Valley in NSW in January.
Households
Rooftop solar installations had a record-breaking month in both New South Wales and Western Australia, while the market in Victoria braces for “pent-up demand.”
Households
Tesla and Octopus Energy launch UK retail offer that promises to deliver a 75% electricity bill discount, as long as you have solar, a Powerwall 2, and preferably a Tesla EV.
Works begin on 12.8MW PV system in Adelaide, marking largest ever deployment of 5B’s prefabricated Maverick solar block technology.
Massive 600kWh zinc-bromine flow battery system will slash Semini Custom Feeds diesel fuel costs by 80% and eliminate its grid consumption.
A covered waste facility in South Australia has added a 600kW solar farm, boosting the facility’s annual energy output and effectively making it “emissions neutral.”
A waste-water plant that treats nearly half of Melbourne’s sewage is set to slash its grid electricity consumption, with the installation of a 19MW solar array.
