One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
Coalition's new energy policy appears to lock in Australia's extraordinary high energy costs for at least another decade. This will encourage more households and businesses to turn to solar, or even leave the grid altogether. Here is how one Brisbane family quit the grid.
Government’s new policy proposal appears to lock in high prices for at least another decade, making rooftop solar and battery storage yet more attractive.
A smart energy storage system has been switched on at the first of a series of public institutions seeking to reduce energy bills in South Australia.
South Australia opposition promises $100m in grants to help homes to buy and install battery storage in lead-up to state election.
After five weeks with 8kW of solar panels and a 10kWh LG battery – including mostly perfect weather, some rainy days and one eight-hour grid outage – here's how the system at my NSW home performed.
Victoria’s Monash University has begun work on an innovative solar and battery storage-based renewable energy microgrid.
Australia headed for one GW of rooftop solar installs this year, regulator cracks down on solar rorts, and making sense of volatile certificate prices.
It has been 12 months since we installed solar and two small battery storage units at our home. This is what we learned in our year of load defection.
WA regional utility takes Exmouth Golf Club off the grid, and supplies solar and storage in order to save costs.
Cuttyhunk witnessed New England’s whale oil industry give way to kerosene and incandescent light bulbs. Now the tiny island is deep in another energy revolution — reducing diesel use by way of a solar plus storage microgrid.
WA's Rottnest Island can now meet up to 90% of its electricity demand from solar and wind energy, after a 600kW solar array was added to the existing hybrid wind and diesel system.
Domino's Pizza franchise in western Sydney installs "world's largest" commercial Tesla Powerwall 2 battery system for half the price of a grid upgrade. Is this the new normal for small businesses?
A Queensland local government council has installed what is believed to be Australia’s first off-grid solar and battery storage system to use a Tesla Powerpack, to maintain local drinking water quality around the clock.
Five things we learned this past week about the state of Australia's home battery storage market, the rules that govern it, the "Tesla effect", how companies are competing, and which governments are on the ball.
Sonnen offers "free energy" for households using approved installers, and says it has 2,000 battery sales so far in 2017 and keen to play FCAS market.
Poll reveals batteries could soon be as "common as dishwashers" in Australian homes, in race to cut power bills with solar and storage.
