Households
Australia now has a standard for residential battery storage installations. We look at what it means for customers, and installers.
Households
Strict new standards predicted to make household battery storage “really hard, really complicated, and really expensive,” and will likely put a massive brake on demand.
Businesses
Lion breweries sign major group PPA deal with Simply Energy to supply more than 300 pubs and hotels with cheaper solar power.
Households
Solar Victoria confident solar rebate challenges resolved as fresh allocation of 4,000 rebates exhausted in 80 minutes.
Households
AEMC unveils blueprint for “future energy grid” embracing rooftop solar, household batteries and electric vehicles, although its call for urgency rankles with those that see the rule-maker as a stumbling block in the past.
Households
Demand for Victorian government home solar rebate showing no signs of slowing, with second-round September offer of 3,250 applications filled in little more than a quarter of an hour.
Households
Victoria’s rooftop PV rebate has again been taken up in record time, with the boosted September offering of 6,500 discounted home solar panel systems disappearing in under an hour.
Households
Victoria’s state Labor government yields to calls to fix troubled rooftop solar rebate, with raft of changes including an almost tripling of the number of applications open for September.
Businesses
Victoria’s La Trobe University unveils $75m plan to become state’s first to reach net zero emissions in 2029, including possible solar farm construction.
Households
ACT energy efficiency scheme expanded to support a transition away from gas, as ACT Government targets next stage of emissions reductions.
German battery giant achieves major Australian manufacturing milestone, just in time for the introduction of harsh new home battery installation rules.
Victorian dairy farm looks to cover all its electricity needs with “affordable and reliable” renewable energy, via 450kW solar and 80kW/320kWh vanadium redox flow battery.
Another 4,000 rooftop solar rebates allocated in Victoria’s mid-October offer, as demand and supply start to even out under the boosted scheme.
Work begins on the solar array that will cover the 5-hectare roof of Adelaide’s Tonsley Innovation District, and have a total installed capacity of 2.3MW.
