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Solar Victoria expands battery rebate scheme to pave way for VPPs
Sophie Vorrath22 Apr 20200 comments

Solar Victoria says it will expand its home battery rebate scheme starting July to encourage the aggregation of distributed battery systems and pave the way for VPPs in the state.

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Podcasts, Battery/Storage, Solar
Solar Insiders Podcast: What drives Australians to install battery storage?
Giles Parkinson and Nigel Morris22 Apr 20200 comments

Sunwiz director Warwick Johnston on the uptake of battery storage by Australian homes. And we ask the question: Has Covid-19 killed crap solar?

Other Renewables
Macquarie University to go 100% renewable in deal with Snowy Hydro
Michael Mazengarb22 Apr 20200 comments

Macquarie Uni inks a deal with Snowy Hydro to supply its campus with 100% renewables, reducing its emissions footprint by a massive 92 per cent.

Software/Gadgets, Battery/Storage, Solar
Power Ledger to deliver blockchain solar microgrids to 10 Perth apartment buildings
Sophie Vorrath22 Apr 20200 comments

Connected Communities deal to start with 62-apartment complex in Inglewood, made 100% renewable through embedded network of solar and storage.

Solar
Rooftop solar continues to weather Covid-19 storm, at “very healthy levels”
Sophie Vorrath20 Apr 20200 comments

Australia's rooftop solar market maintains "very healthy levels" of growth despite the uncertain start to 2020, with just the usual Easter lull over the past fortnight.

Battery/Storage, Policy, Solar
Thousands pile in to S.A. home battery scheme before subsidy winds back
Sophie Vorrath17 Apr 20200 comments

More than 5,000 solar households apply for battery storage subsidy in just five weeks, in a last-minute rush to access a $6000 discount via state government home battery scheme.

Solar
How solar owners are saving more while #stayinghome
Alison Potter17 Apr 20200 comments

#Stayinghome to help fight Covid-19 is not all bad news for power bills. We asked a number of solar households what they were experiencing at home.

Solar, Software/Gadgets
When the roof over your head is also a solar microgrid: Skagerak Energilab
Elisa Wood16 Apr 20200 comments

The solar roof of Norway's Skagerak Arena roof is the core of a sophisticated microgrid that not only powers the stadium but also 15 nearby homes in the city of Skien.

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Battery/Storage, Policy, Solar
Australians installed 22,661 home battery systems in 2019
Sophie Vorrath16 Apr 20200 comments

Australian households invested in almost two-and-a-half “Big Batteries” worth of home energy storage in 2019, installing 22,661 systems over the course of the year with a total capacity of 233MWh, and taking further control over their energy supply.

Solar
Townsville office building, and Adani Carmichael coal mine HQ, goes solar
Sophie Vorrath14 Apr 20200 comments

Sentinel Property Group installs 100kW solar system at its River Quays building in Townsville – an office complex whose tenants include Indian mining giant Adani Resources.

Podcasts, Solar
Solar Insiders Podcast: Tindo’s shining light in solar market
Giles Parkinson and Nigel Morris9 Apr 20200 comments

Rooftop solar on a Covid-coaster, the last of the one-for-one tariffs, and Tindo Solar’s Glenn Morelli on battery storage boom and plans to expand module factory.

Battery/Storage
West Australia puts community batteries at top of new energy roadmap
Giles Parkinson9 Apr 20200 comments

W.A. unveils new energy roadmap focusing on rooftop solar, batteries and EVs, and will roll out ten "neighbourhood" batteries in and around Perth before end of the year.

News
Power play: How fossil free homes are Australia’s answer to economic recovery
Laura Phillips9 Apr 20200 comments

Housing is Australia’s greatest resource to tackle climate change and pave the way to economic recovery. Three families show how 100% renewable electricity can be achieved.

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Software/Gadgets
Power Ledger partners with French utility to certify renewables with blockchain
Michael Mazengarb8 Apr 20200 comments

Blockchain will be used to certify renewable energy trading in a partnership struct between Australian Power Ledger and French utility ekWateur.

Battery/Storage
Home battery software aims to outsmart electricity prices
Jessica Bassano7 Apr 20200 comments

A South Australian clean energy startup has launched software to control the purchase and release of electricity in household grid-powered battery systems.

Battery/Storage, Policy, Solar
Northern Territory offers $6,000 grant for home batteries, cuts solar tariff
Giles Parkinson5 Apr 20200 comments

Northern Territory to provide $6,000 grant for homes and businesses to install battery storage, funded by a cut in the solar feed in tariff.

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