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Battery/Storage, Solar
Battery storage: Who’s leading on quality and brand recognition?
bridieosotg29 Aug 20170 comments

Tesla and LG Chem are leading the battery storage market in terms of brand recognition, but the issue of quality throws up some other names.

Solar
ZEN Energy taps commercial solar sweet spot, with three major projects
Sophie Vorrath25 Aug 20170 comments

ZEN Energy says business demand for power at "about one-fifth" the cost of the grid driving commercial solar boom.

Battery/Storage, Other Renewables
WA's biggest pig farm about to go 100 per cent renewable energy
Giles Parkinson23 Aug 20170 comments

WA's biggest piggery operator to add wind and storage to existing solar arrays in push to 100 per cent renewable energy supply.

Battery/Storage, Solar
Should your mortgage cover solar and battery storage, too?
Sophie Vorrath23 Aug 20170 comments

Digital mortgage broker claims a homeowner with $600,000 mortgage who added $16,544 to install solar and battery storage would be more than $1800 better off a year.

Battery/Storage, Solar
Home battery market not booming yet – but consumer interest is
Sophie Vorrath23 Aug 20170 comments

As Australian households flock to solar, interest in battery storage is starting to ramp up, as a way to minimise grid electricity consumption and to provide a reliable source of back-up power.

Solar
The great Aussie rubbish tip has come a long way. Now we’re adding solar panels
Dan Silkstone22 Aug 20170 comments

An Australian-first project in Melbourne is trialling a new method for installing solar panels that allows what would otherwise be unused land to become home to a solar farm.

Battery/Storage, Energy Efficiency, Solar
Batteries included: Another new-build Australian suburb offers solar + storage
Sophie Vorrath21 Aug 20170 comments

New-build Qld suburb offers houses with solar + Tesla Powerwall 2 included – enough to make them energy self-sufficient from “dawn to dusk.”

Solar
OffGridBox: Clean water and solar power… in a box
Derek Markham18 Aug 20170 comments

Italian startup's $15,000 all-in-one modular solution can supply 16kWh solar power a day, plus 24,000 liters of filtered, sterilised drinking water – enough to provide for a remote village of about 300 people.

Solar
Pace of renewables shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
Tony Matthews and Jason Byrne17 Aug 20170 comments

Responding to climate change, networks of decision-makers, such as the C40 collective of major cities, have begun adopting strategies to promote the uptake of renewable energy. Yet land use planning has seemingly begun to lag behind.

Battery/Storage, Policy
Warnings of energy storage market chaos, as industry unites against home battery ban
Sophie Vorrath17 Aug 20170 comments

Australian energy storage industry registers thousands of protests against Standards Australia's proposed home battery ban. Industry body says if draft adopted, the energy storage industry in Australia and globally will be "thrown into chaos.”

Battery/Storage, Solar
Bruny retirees love their solar power 
bridieosotg16 Aug 20170 comments

John Kobylec believed that installation of a solar system at his Bruny Island retirement home would be prohibitively expensive, but is now a now total convert.

Energy Efficiency, Solar
Saint Lucia’s journey to a renewable future
Stephen Mushegan and Roy Torbert16 Aug 20170 comments

St Lucia’s 180,000 residents and tourism-driven economy depend heavily on reliable electricity. Over the past year action has started to shift the island from almost 100% imported fossil fuelled power, to a mix of local renewables.

Solar
Bruny Island trials “electricity grid of the future”
bridieosotg15 Aug 20170 comments

Tasmania's Bruny Island sees the benefits as 11 of 35 solar-powered battery systems installed in private homes start contributing to the local electricity grid.

Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets
‘Smart home’ gadgets: Not always the easy answer to cutting bills
Yolande Strengers and Larissa Nicholls15 Aug 20170 comments

Research suggests some "smart" devices can wind up increasing household energy usage, rather than cutting it.

Battery/Storage, Solar
NT community puts diesel on back-burner, with 1MW solar + 2MWh battery storage
Sophie Vorrath11 Aug 20170 comments

Daly River Nauiyu community set to be first in NT powered by solar and storage, after installation of a 2MWh lithium-ion battery system.

Solar
Australia's biggest solar retailer forced to replace non-compliant panels
Giles Parkinson9 Aug 20170 comments

Euro Solar forced to surrender STCs or replace PV modules after being found to have installed non-compliant solar panels, as part of a Clean Energy Regulator crackdown on Australia's rooftop solar industry.

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