A community led program brings together products and information to help households go all-electric in a state where roughly 80% of homes use gas.
Community-led electric homes program launches in fossil gas heartland
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How Australia got to 30GW of solar: Households led the way
Australia now has more than 30GW of solar energy generating capacity installed on its grid, a new report has confirmed – so where is it all installed?
Solar carparks offer renewable solution for supermarkets, and cheap EV charging
Solar car parks are helping supermarkets offset huge electricity costs, and providing a source of cheap power for EV charging customers.
Australian tech brings shared solar and halved energy bills to public housing
"This is world-first technology ... being used in New Zealand for the first time." Allume's SolShare cracks a new market to get solar where it's most needed.
QCells puts winter freeze on power prices for solar and battery retail customers
South Korean solar giant will freeze prices of energy plans offered through its retail entity, Arcstream, to shield customers from expected winter price hike.
Batteries included: Officeworks adds storage to solar at stores to reach 100 pct renewables
Office supplies giant switches on its first behind-the-meter battery at a retail outlet in Queensland – a final step in plan to source 100% renewables by 2025.
New incentives offered for home batteries – and to boost massive virtual power plant
Plans to establish a 2GW network of home solar and battery systems get a kick-along from green lending deal, on top of sign up bonuses.
Solar hot water sales hit record high as households look beyond PV for savings
New data reveals a dark horse in the race to cut home energy bills – solar hot water systems charted their biggest ever monthly installs in May.
Big battery switches on to power island community through tourist peaks
A 5MW/10MWh lithium-ion phosphate battery energy system has been switched on, ready to help power a popular tourist destination through holiday peaks.
“Powerful alliance:” Big names in solar and battery storage join forces
Australia’s leading solar distributor forms strategic global partnership with one of world's leading energy storage providers, to drive "exponential growth."
AGL launches fund to install solar for hardship customers, help electrify homes
AGL Energy bolsters efforts to improve energy affordability and protect those hardest hit by rising power prices, including through a rooftop solar fund.
Tesla expands landmark battery-based VPP, including to homes with no solar
Tesla virtual power plant to be expanded to another 3,000 low income families, including those who cannot have rooftop solar but can have battery installed.
OpenSolar seeks to make PV payment plans easy – for industry and customers
OpenSolar teams with Adelaide-based fintech company to provide quick and seamless solar financing integration for solar industry to offer customers.
Is your rooftop solar performing as well as it should? Data says… probably not
Some 75% of residential rooftop solar systems are not passing on the full extent of electricity bill savings they are capable of delivering. Why – and what can be done?
Three strikes and out: Network warning to rooftop solar installers over inverters
Rooftop solar installers warned they will be sidelined if they fail to comply with strict new inverter installation standards.
Budget home energy funding a good start, but dwarfed by the scale of the task
If we assume most of our existing homes are below-par on energy performance, we will need to retrofit to more than 45 homes every hour between now and 2050.
