One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
Long-time solar owners are feeling burned by falling feed-in tariffs and rising night time rates and flocking to batteries. It’s enough for one retailer to boost its outlets.
Endeavour Energy launches its first renewable microgrid, a system it hopes will protect the townships from bushfires – and tourist-induced blackouts.
Queensland flags new $4,000 rebate for solar households to install battery storage.
Monash University study finds retailer incentives and tariff design will have key roles to play in making households smarter about power use.
Households are increasingly turning to specialised finance providers to pay for rooftop solar, batteries and electrification as cost of living bites.
Income threshold levels increased for solar rebates as state government seeks to accelerate shift away from gas and toward renewable all-electric.
Banks, insurers and building industry call for single national home energy rating system – and measures to improve energy performance of rentals.
PowerPlay plans to use a tokenised system to share the benefits of cheap renewables with people currently excluded from using rooftop solar.
The Clean Energy Regulator thinks 2023 could be a record year for small solar installations – and batteries are on the up as well.
Solar installers are reporting big increases in home battery sales – even though for many households the economic equation has hardly shifted. So what’s changed?
