Should you invest in a home battery to store solar output, manage energy use and cut costs? It really depends on what you want to achieve.
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Boundary Power deploys its first bespoke solar and battery system on Australia’s east coast, as a safer, more reliable power option for a remote customer.
Tasmania’s King Island will boost its renewable energy supply – and further slash its use of diesel fuel – with the addition of a 1.5MW solar farm.
Essential Energy hopes to eliminate the use of diesel back-up by adding renewable hydrogen to a solar and battery microgrid in a NSW National Park.
Some of the biggest solar and battery names in the world call for rethink of inverter changes they say will cause rise in prices.
With big policy dollars pledged to neighbourhood batteries, we look at some of the problems facing community energy storage and how to get around them.
The first 50 of 1,000 planned standalone solar and battery systems set to be delivered to remote communities to cut emissions and boost reliability.
Swell Energy has raised $US120 million to roll out 600MWh of rooftop solar based virtual power plants, including 26,000 home battery storage systems.
The faulty batteries, which may be branded LG, SolaX, Opal, Redback, Eguana, or VARTA, can overheat and catch fire.
South Australia's current grid woes give us a feel for the state of rooftop solar management ‘in the wild’ – and it’s much more interesting than it would first appear.
Clean Energy Regulator says forecasts of high energy prices into 2023 and 2024 could see the payback period for rooftop solar cut by another year.
New Use Energy and a group of nonprofits are working with medical professionals and others to keep the lights on as Russia makes Ukraine's grid a war target.
ACT launches stage one of tender to develop a community-scale battery to support homes and the grid in one of the territory’s first gas-free suburbs.
Green hydrogen production and generation plant completed for use alongside solar, wind and battery storage to help power a remote WA town.
A boosted 5MW rooftop solar array at the Tonsley Innovation District in Adelaide will power up next week, taking it to 80% renewables. Battery storage is next.
A new rule that will require large numbers of rooftop solar systems to be fitted with a basic on-off switch has been slammed as outdated, reckless and costly.