New solar tool shows daily, time-based forecast for each state
New tool integrated into APVI Live Solar Map, allows solar system owners to estimate how their PV generation will track over the rest of the day....
Category: Solar
South Australia council to save more than $80k a year with solar
City of Onkaparinga, south of Adelaide, to install more than 300kW rooftop solar across three sites, in a move council says will save it more than $80,000 a year....
Melbourne shopping centre halves grid consumption with 1MW solar array
Sunshine Plaza shopping centre will source nearly half its electricity from solar, after installing one of the city's largest commercial rooftop PV arrays....
South Africa microgrid taps second-life electric vehicle batteries
Production facility in Wadeville, South Africa, cuts energy and operational costs beyond expectation using solar and first and second life EV batteries....
Should you take your house off grid?
There are several reasons to consider a life off the grid. But you should always consider whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for your household....
W.A. gold mine to debut new, portable battery technology
Western Australia gold mine one of first sites in world to test out new, modular lithium-ion battery storage solution by EU-based Aggreko and subsidiary Younicos....
New data shows Victoria rooftop solar market languishing, with rebate on hold
Two charts from solar analysts SunWiz show Australia's infamous "solar coaster" in full effect in Victoria, as residential installs languish waiting for the state's Solar Homes rebate to resume....
W.A. to fund solar farms in six remote indigenous communities
W.A. government to install up to 4MW of solar across 6 remote indigenous communities, in $11.6m budget plan to slash use of heavy-polluting â heavily subsidised â diesel fuel....
CEFC tips $95m into solar powered, energy efficient community housing
Clean Energy Finance Corporation backs Housing Plus to deliver 220 new energy efficienct homes over three years in regional NSW, including solar and battery storage....
Solar Insiders Podcast: What is going on in Queensland?
Confusion and frustration in the Sunshine state as the government seeks to justify new rules that will add costs to solar farms and make some installations impossible....
