Policy

Andrews Labor government rolls out grants for community organisations to help reduce energy usage and emissions, with $1.8m available for solar, batteries and efficiency measures.

The solar switch off mechanism is now in force in W.A, and the coal lobby is fighting back at the idea that the end is nigh.

EDL flips switch on 11.4MW Jabiru Hybrid Renewable Project, which uses up to 100% solar during the day, and battery and diesel at night.

In the absence of government leadership there is plenty we can do as a community and help one another in decarbonising our suburbs and our cities.

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

Solar retailers and installers will have to comply with new rules around the sale and installation of rooftop panels as early as April, after "integrity review" reforms were written into law.

New South Wales government extends offer of free rooftop solar to low income households in parts of greater Sydney, boosting the successful $50 million program beyond the state's regions.

Australia's rooftop solar industry avoids potential "disaster" with a six-month delay to complex new rules around PV inverters with integrated DC isolators.

Horizon Power says two community-scale batteries installed at coastal resort town of Broome will free up more than 1,400kW of new rooftop PV hosting capacity to residents and businesses.

Around two-dozen NSW courthouses to become host to rooftop solar, with some to host battery storage and EV charging infrastructure.

Hints emerge of a “pragmatic solution” to the rushed introduction of controversial new safety and certification requirements for DC isolator-integrated solar inverters.

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.”

Victoria regulator says state's minimum solar feed-in tariff will next July will fall to nearly half the minimum rate of last year.

We explore the issues and challenges of protecting consumers and regulating solar retailers in Australia with Gerard Brody, the CEO of the Consumer Action Law Centre in Melbourne.

Solar industry calls for clarity as inverters with integrated DC isolators face becoming non-compliant "overnight" due to changes to Australian certification requirements.

Rooftop solar retailers to provide written estimates of expected savings of each new PV system they sell, as part of suite of changes for rebate scheme.