One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
Experts warn consumers to choose their discounted home batteries wisely, as a new report points to supply shortfalls as a “potential short-term cloud” on booming market horizon.
National Renewable Network CEO Alan Hunter on his company’s mission to get home solar and storage to the masses. Plus news of the week.
A new deep-dive into the economics of home batteries has found the payback period could be as low as four years, when factoring in rebates and VPP participation.
Australian households have installed nearly 30,000 home batteries in six weeks since the launch of the federal rebate – around the same amount as was installed in the entire first six months of 2024.
The retailer behind one of Australia’s most popular virtual power plants says nearly 3,000 new customers signed up in the first month of the home battery rebate.
Australian households have installed an astonishing number battery systems in the first month of the federal rebate, but the regulator has put the industry on notice.
Nexa Advisory’s Stephanie Bashir on consumer energy, competition and holding networks to account. Plus: News of the week from the ACES conference in Sydney.
Home battery installations pass major new milestone, with more residential energy storage systems registered in one day than rooftop solar systems for first time.
Con Hristodoulidis from the Clean Energy Council on how the federal home battery rebate is doing, two weeks in, and what comes next in the consumer energy revolution. Plus news of the week.
The network company that first called for the introduction of rooftop solar export tariffs has this month started charging the so-called “sun tax” to retailers on its grid.
