AGL Energy bolsters efforts to improve energy affordability and protect those hardest hit by rising power prices, including through a rooftop solar fund.
AGL launches fund to install solar for hardship customers, help electrify homes
How to ensure renters can cash-in on rooftop solar as electricity prices rise again
Further power price hikes will deepen the divide between solar haves and have-nots. New measures are needed to make sure renters can get in on the action.
Ikea launches “largest” urban commercial solar and battery microgrid
More than 3,000 solar panels and a 3MW/3.45MWh battery make up this urban, commercial microgrid launched this week from an Ikea rooftop.
Lightweight solar panels land distribution deal on market debut
GoodWe secures Australian distribution and technical support partner for its new range of lightweight building integrated solar panels.
Home battery rush looms as rebates about to be replaced by zero interest loans
Solar Homes battery rebate will close to applications in just over one month's time, as the scheme switches to a zero interest loan offering instead.
Tesla expands landmark battery-based VPP, including to homes with no solar
Tesla virtual power plant to be expanded to another 3,000 low income families, including those who cannot have rooftop solar but can have battery installed.
Indigenous communities to ditch diesel, as Labor upholds microgrid funding
Renewable microgrid funding, originally set aside in the 2021-22 federal budget, will slash the use of costly and polluting diesel in remote Indigenous communities.
Residential microgrids are booming – and utilities are getting in on the action
New data from Wood Mackenzie reveals residential microgrids as the new growth engine for the sector and finds utilities getting in on the game.
Solar Insiders Podcast: From coal valley outsider to solar trailblazer
Andy McCarthy reflects on his journey from a garage-based start-up to the CEO of RACV solar. Plus Queensland does it again.
New home battery lands in Australia as Enphase launches 3rd gen IQ
Australia becomes second country outside US to get its hands on Enphase's third-gen IQ battery, ranging from 5kWh to 20kWh in capacity.
OpenSolar seeks to make PV payment plans easy – for industry and customers
OpenSolar teams with Adelaide-based fintech company to provide quick and seamless solar financing integration for solar industry to offer customers.
Is your rooftop solar performing as well as it should? Data says… probably not
Some 75% of residential rooftop solar systems are not passing on the full extent of electricity bill savings they are capable of delivering. Why – and what can be done?
Community batteries are popular, but do they actually help share power?
Sometimes – and in some parts of the grid – community batteries make sense. At other times, they may not be the best solution.
Solar Insiders Podcast: Getting to grips with solar duck curve
We're back! Gabrielle Kuiper on why rooftop solar should not be ignored by grid planners. Plus: Latest news including dire warning for PV installers on inverters.
Three strikes and out: Network warning to rooftop solar installers over inverters
Rooftop solar installers warned they will be sidelined if they fail to comply with strict new inverter installation standards.
Budget home energy funding a good start, but dwarfed by the scale of the task
If we assume most of our existing homes are below-par on energy performance, we will need to retrofit to more than 45 homes every hour between now and 2050.
