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.
Solar hot water sales hit record high as households look beyond PV for savings
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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.
Rooftop solar to slash community housing energy bills by 30 pct, at no cost to tenants
Believe Housing has rolled out solar panels on 13 community housing properties in Adelaide’s north using interest-free loans from climate action charity CORENA.
Sungrow inverters cleared for compliance with flexible solar export rules
China inverter giant gains tick of compliance with South Australia's new technical requirements for flexible solar exports, as July deadline looms.
Most inverters for rooftop solar and storage wrongly installed, audit finds
Audit finds less than 30% of newly installed inverters for solar, batteries and EV chargers are configured to meet new standards crucial to grid integration.
Inverter giant targets rooftops that can’t go solar, with new lightweight panel solution
More than 25% of rooftops in Australia cannot be installed with traditional solar panels and mounting systems. GoodWe has an answer for that.
Battery profits more than double for LG Energy Solution as demand soars
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution sees profits more than double in the first quarter thanks in large part to an increase in US EV battery shipments.
Enphase set to launch third generation IQ home battery in Australia
Australia will be the first country outside US to get Enphase Energy's third generation IQ Battery, with a launch date confirmed for this quarter.
Fraunhofer ISE debuts solar thermal facades for heat pumps
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is developing and testing solar thermal façade panels that could replace the more traditional external air unit.
