One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
Data used to showcase the downward impact of renewable energy on power prices contained a stunning and timely reminder: nothing has crushed household energy bills like rooftop solar.
New data shows home battery installations had a bumper second half in 2024 – but still only a fraction of solar homes have invested in storage.
Commercial rooftop solar had its best year of growth in 2024, but there is a cloud over the residential sector. Changes are afoot.
State pricing regulator factors “sun tax” into draft feed-in tariff estimates, with more than 300,000 solar households set to pay rooftop export fees starting in July.
Rebates of $5,000 per household, or $7,500 for regional households, are being promised in one of Australia’s most rooftop solar-heavy states.
Despite the usual summer slump, the first month of installs for 2025 has delivered the second-best January on record, behind the bumper year of 2021.
Clean Energy Council suspends several big-brand inverters from its list of approved products, rendering them ineligible for use in federal and state rebate schemes.
Regulator report finds that little-understood but increasingly common demand tariffs can add up to $800 to an annual electricity bill, often without any warning.
Have you heard the one about non-solar homes paying the cost to networks of accommodating solar households? New report from regulator suggests it’s not a thing.
Clean Energy Regulator issues fresh reminder to follow the rules governing the rooftop solar industry or face exclusion from the federal rebate scheme.
