Ground-breaking solar and battery microgrid project at Ikea’s Adelaide store reaches major milestone, after the rooftop PV component is energised. Battery and controls to come in April.
Australian homes and businesses installed a record amount of rooftop solar in 2021, just edging past 3GW of new capacity added, despite another round of Covid chaos.
Solar retailers and installers will have to comply with new rules around the sale and installation of rooftop panels as early as April, after “integrity review” reforms were written into law.
Melbourne Water is nearing the completion of a nearly 20MW solar plant, one of the biggest single commercial PV arrays to be installed in Australia, to date.
New South Wales government extends offer of free rooftop solar to low income households in parts of greater Sydney, boosting the successful $50 million program beyond the state’s regions.
The Australian start up that in September achieved a new benchmark for solar cell efficiency has this week notched up another major new milestone, with the production of its first ever full-size solar panel.
Australia’s rooftop solar industry avoids potential “disaster” with a six-month delay to complex new rules around PV inverters with integrated DC isolators.