Victorian Labor government introduces new requirement making “smart inverters” mandatory for solar systems installed under its Solar Homes scheme.
Victoria cracks down on inverter standards for rooftop solar scheme
AusNet hints at online error as solar, battery rejections spark industry anger
As concern grows that solar and battery storage is being blocked in some parts of Victoria, AusNet says efforts to fast-track the customer connection process may have caused some applications to be wrongly rejected.
Solar Bay inks deal to install solar on nine major shopping centres
Commercial renewables installer and financier inks deal with Real Asset Management to lease rooftops of nine of its suburban shopping malls in NSW and Qld, and fit them out with solar PV.
Victoria government closes Solar Homes rebate to "approved" retailers only
Victoria government says rooftop solar retailers wishing to participate in Solar Homes subsidy must be signatories to Clean Energy Council Code of Conduct. Industry has mixed response.
Home hydrogen storage for rooftop solar? UNSW team says it's coming in 2020
UNSW and Tamworth company H2Store win investor support for hydrogen storage that could be applied to home solar storage by late 2020.
Australia installs its first solar farm in Antarctica – a 30kW vertical array
Desert-based renewables outfit Masdar helps install Australia’s first Antarctic solar array – a 105 panel system mounted on a wall at the Casey research station.
Senec tapped to provide home batteries in W.A.'s largest solar + storage microgrid
German-based Senec Australia chosen to supply home battery systems for Horizon Power’s cutting edge solar and storage microgrid in the coastal Pilbara town of Onslow.
New rooftop solar, battery connection standards: What do they mean? Who needs to know?
New standards guiding rooftop solar and battery storage installs across the NEM have been released by the ENA. But are they good, bad or indifferent for consumers and industry? And what will they actually do? We ask the ENA and the CEC for some answers.
NT councils offered grants to install solar, EV chargers, batteries
Northern Territory Labor government opens $2m grant scheme to encourage councils to move to better energy efficient infrastructure and reduce costs to consumers and taxpayers.
W.A. Water Corp taps solar to cut grid power consumption in half
W.A. Water Corporation reveals plans to install solar across nine sites – enough to supply around 50 per cent of the electricity needs of each of the facilities in question.
