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Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up
The Conversation18 Sep 20150 comments

It is likely that households are not getting the most from their solar hot water systems. So how can you get the most out of your solar hot water system?

Battery/Storage, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Solar
Consumers want to be energy self-sufficient – but who will help them do it?
Sophie Vorrath15 Sep 20150 comments

Australian consumers want to embrace energy technologies like solar and storage that offer them cheaper electricity and greater energy independence – and power industry incumbents to meet this new wave of demand, or lose their grip on the market.

Solar
Woolworths builds solar portfolio to 1.2MW, well short of 320MW mooted in 2010
Giles Parkinson15 Sep 20150 comments

Woolworths has quietly installed 1.2MW of rooftop solar, but it is well short of the 320MW potential it identified five years ago.

Battery/Storage, Solar
Off grid, and sometimes in the dark, overlooking spectacular Great Ocean Road
Emma Sutcliffe15 Sep 20150 comments

Astrid Liberts had no choice but to be off-grid in her dream home with spectacular ocean views. Each upgrade delivers improvements, but sometimes she yearns to be connected.

Solar
GPT building 1.25MW rooftop solar array in Darwin, largest in Australia
Giles Parkinson15 Sep 20150 comments

GPT building a 1.25MW solar array on Darwin shopping centre, nudging rival's claim to largest rooftop array in Australia.

Battery/Storage, Solar
UBS: Battery storage payback for solar households will be 5-6 years by 2020
Sophie Vorrath14 Sep 20150 comments

New report predicts 'mass adoption' of battery storage by Australian solar households could be just five years away, as costs fall by more than 60%. And household storage could play a key role in a 50% renewables target.

Battery/Storage, Electric Vehicles, Software/Gadgets, Solar
The 2020 solar household: independent, intelligent and efficient
Sophie Vorrath11 Sep 20150 comments

SMA managing director Mark Twidell says the real solar revolution will arrive with smart management technology, allowing the average prosumer of the future to buy from the grid, sell their solar power, and manage their consumption.

Energy Efficiency, Solar
Regional Vic health centre going solar via community funding model
Sophie Vorrath10 Sep 20150 comments

Totally Renewable Yackandandah to use highly successful crowd funding model to install 90kW solar at local not-for-profit health care centre.

Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Enphase chooses Australia for launch of plug'n'play AC battery unit
Sophie Vorrath9 Sep 20150 comments

The first battery offering from Enphase has launched in Australia – a market the leading US tech company says could be first to achieve battery 'parity.'

Energy Efficiency, Solar, Tariffs
Solar is great, but don't trust Australia's energy cartel
Sophie Vorrath9 Sep 20150 comments

Powershop CEO Ben Burge sees the rush to rooftop solar as a symptom of the same problem that has made his upstart power retailer such a success – customer disaffection with the Australian energy cartel. But he's worried the solar revolution could have a sting in its tail for consumers.

Solar
High-rise solar power installation in West Perth
Peter Breen9 Sep 20150 comments

Peter Breen talks with Rob Isaacs about the solar panel installation for the Market Rise apartments in West Perth, a four-tower 8-storey strata site.

Solar
Uluru resorts in Australia's centre to be powered by solar
Giles Parkinson8 Sep 20150 comments

A 1.8MW solar array will provide nearly one third of the day-time needs of the facilities at the iconic Uluru tourist attraction.

Solar
Rooftop solar is contagious – here's the proof
Sophie Vorrath8 Sep 20150 comments

When one house installed solar panels in the Queensland suburb of Carina, households around it soon followed suit.

Solar
Solar powered aged care: how one booming Australian sector is driving another
Sophie Vorrath8 Sep 20150 comments

New projects in Queensland illustrate the perfect fit of Australia's rapidly expanding aged care industry, and commercial solar.

Battery/Storage, Solar
'Poster girl' for alternative lifestyle shares her off-grid story
Emma Sutcliffe6 Sep 20150 comments

Columnist and cartoonist Jill Redwood had to start over after the Ash Wednesday bush fires in 1983. She explains how she lives off grid with just a very small solar system of 1kW and battery storage.

Battery/Storage, Solar, Tariffs
Why some customers could be better off with no solar feed in tariff
Sophie Vorrath2 Sep 20150 comments

IPART says beware of retailers offering high solar tariffs - some customers might be better off going with retailer that offers no tariff because of other not-so-hidden charges.

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