Australia records best month for more than two years for rooftop solar, with WA setting records and Victoria breaking through 1GW rooftop solar mark.
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Oxford County, Ontario, has just opened a wind farm as part of a project to go 100% renewables for electricity and heat.
The long-standing upfront subsidy for rooftop solar systems will be reduced within a few weeks when the "deeming period" for PV systems declines from 15 years to 14 years.
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Report from Australia's main network lobby and CSIRO suggests that by 2050, nearly half of all future generation – and storage – will be on site in homes, business and communities.
Sonnenbatterie says sales in Australia have doubled and it is now the biggest market outside Europe for the German premium battery storage developer. And even at the top end, prices have fallen to be comparable with grid costs.
Not for profit charity Ronald McDonald House to save thousands of dollars a year on power costs, via 8.3kW rooftop solar system donated to its Orange, NSW branch.
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CSU signs contract to install 1.77MW solar across 11 buildings at its Wagga Wagga campus, to meet just under 20% of its electricity consumption.
Australia’s first residential solar electricity sharing market is underway, with the launch of Power Ledger's world leading P2P trading platform at the White Gum Valley housing project in WA.
Tesla and SolarCity have unveiled their first microgrid project – 1.4MW solar PV plus 6MWh of Tesla battery storage on the American Samoa island of Ta'u.
LG Chem partners with SMA inverters as competition in the Australian battery storage market intensifies with more than 200,000 solar households about to lose their premium feed in tariffs and look to storage options.
China’s new solar poverty alleviation project will use solar PV to increase the income of 200 million Chinese households living below the poverty line.
Solar + battery storage optimisation platform by CSIRO-backed start-up Evergen to be installed in 10 NSW low-income households in first of a kind pilot program.
Siemens throws its weight behind the New York based blockchain microgrid start-up that has just set up office in Australia.
The huge success of a community-based program encouraging solar and battery storage uptake in Australian homes and businesses suggests the battery storage sector may be in the early stages of mass-market uptake. And that's not all it tells us.