• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
One Step Off The Grid

One Step Off The Grid

Solar, storage and distributed energy news

  • Solar
  • Battery/Storage
  • Off-Grid
  • Efficiency
  • Software
  • Podcasts
  • Tariffs
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Electrification

ALDI Australia to add another 4.6MW of commercial solar in NSW, Queensland

January 22, 2019 by Sophie Vorrath Leave a Comment

Aldi Tweed Heads solar system. Source: Epho Energy

Discount supermarket chain ALDI is set to install another 4.6MW of rooftop solar across stores and a distribution centre across New South Wales and Queensland, to further cut its daytime draw from the grid.
The 31 new projects will be installed by Netherlands-based Photon Energy – 30 arrays on stores, and one on a distribution centre – and are expected to generate a combined 6.3 GWh of clean energy a year once completed.
“Photon Energy is very proud to be cooperating with ALDI to transform its stores into solar power generators capable of providing a large proportion of their daytime electricity consumption,” said managing director Michael Gartner in comments on Tuesday.
“Photon Energy will also provide state-of-the-art monitoring as well as operation and maintenance services to ensure the systems are highly reliable with the maximum positive impact for ALDI,” he said.
The new installs will join the massive 1MW array on ALDI’s distribution centre in Brendale, Queensland, installed by Epho Solar in November 2017 after a successful pilot program that installed PV on stores in NSW and Victoria.
The German-owned retailer is gradually building its commercial solar capacity in Australia, after making major investments in solar across its European and US businesses.
In the UK, for example, ALDI had installed solar at all nine of its regional distribution centres and more than 275 stores, with a combined capacity of more than 22MW at the end of 2017.
In Germany, the majority of Aldi stores cool their merchandise and run their lighting on solar power, using most of the 95 million kWh of electricity generated by rooftop PV in their home country for energy self-sufficiency.

Sophie Vorrath
Sophie Vorrath

Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.

Filed Under: Solar

Primary Sidebar

Sign up for our weekly newsletter

Emissions Counter

Renew Economy

RSS Energy News from Renew Economy

  • All deliveries to wind farm stopped after turbine part stuck under bridge
  • Global investment giant creates new platform for Australian battery storage assets
  • Transmission and approval bottlenecks stall progress on critical green export hub
  • “The kind of battery you want in your garage:” Australian team claims flow battery breakthrough
  • Australia’s most powerful battery to be fully operational by end of year after commissioning slows

RSS Electric Vehicle News from The Driven

  • Geely’s $A15,000 EV gets to 200,000 produced units
  • EV lobby demands financial penalties as broken public chargers fail drivers
  • Tesla continues to “haemorrhage” losses in Europe, as fleet operators look elsewhere
  • Zeekr’s most anticipated car lands in Europe, Australia to follow
  • 100 autonomous electric trucks begin work in giant Mongolia mine

Press Releases

  • Huge luxury Saudi resort goes 100pct renewables with one of world’s biggest batteries
  • How solar + storage can be a game-changer for people with disabilities

Footer

Technologies

  • Solar
  • Battery/Storage
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Software/Gadgets
  • Other Renewables
  • Policy
  • Tariffs
  • Contact
  • Advertise with us
  • About One Step Off The Grid
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 · OneStep Genesis on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in