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Australia is finally having the home battery boom it has been anticipating for years, courtesy of an electricity market in crisis. But can supply keep up? And who gets left behind?

AEMO's 2022 Integrated System Plan underlines key role distributed solar and storage will play in Australia's energy transition.

The Northern Territory gears up to deliver its first ever solar and battery virtual power plant, after signing up SwitchDin to help deliver the ground-breaking trial.

An entire community of households and businesses is in the process of quitting the reticulated gas network, backed by state government.

A record amount of home battery installations in Victoria in 2021 was not enough to deliver another year of growth for the Australian market.

South Korea tech giant makes shock exit from solar panel manufacturing, citing impact of global market headwinds including rising cost of raw materials and price competition.

Amber Electric is opening up its SmartShift demand response platform to customers across Australia after a successful South Australia trial – including a big windfall for one battery owner.

Switch turned on for one of Australia’s largest and most sophisticated microgrids, a 5MW mix of solar, wind and battery storage with no fossil fuel backup.

Shifting local trends and global industry headwinds could deliver the first contraction in the Australian rooftop solar market since 2015.

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.

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.

Global solar inverter maker says changes to Australian standards around DC isolators, to be adopted in Queensland, will “cost jobs and money for no tangible benefit to anyone.”

Major new report says Australian households could slash their bills by up to $3.2 billion by 2035 with the accelerated uptake of cost-reflective tariffs and incentives.

New research warns gas brand is “strong and stubborn”, and that asking people to give it up – either for economic or environmental reasons – is the wrong way to push for electrification.

A new report out of Victoria has found that Melbourne households with an average 6-Star efficiency rating and no rooftop solar could save more than $700 a year in one (should be) simple move.

How one non-solar household has slashed its power bills by investing in a home battery, and is expecting a three year payback.