A long-term Arena project aims to answer a key question: how much data do network operators need to allow rooftop solar export flexibility?
How closely monitoring home energy data can be a major win for solar households
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Thinking of buying a home battery? Here’s what you need to know
Should you invest in a home battery to store solar output, manage energy use and cut costs? It really depends on what you want to achieve.
Sun Tax: How three network companies propose to charge for rooftop solar exports
Three NSW electricity networks are planning to introduce rooftop solar export tariffs from 2024. Here's how they're proposing to do it.
NSW network trials Solar Qube to replace poles and wires in Hunter Valley
Boundary Power deploys its first bespoke solar and battery system on Australia’s east coast, as a safer, more reliable power option for a remote customer.
King Island’s world leading renewable micro-grid to add another big solar farm
Tasmania’s King Island will boost its renewable energy supply – and further slash its use of diesel fuel – with the addition of a 1.5MW solar farm.
Network trials hydrogen electrolyser to dump diesel and power lines
Essential Energy hopes to eliminate the use of diesel back-up by adding renewable hydrogen to a solar and battery microgrid in a NSW National Park.
Trina Solar “All Black” rooftop modules arrive in Australia
Chinese solar giant launches upgraded Vertex S Aesthetic Module on Australia's booming rooftop PV market.
Rooftop solar charts “massive upswing” as 2022 draws to a close
New SunWiz data shows a 26% jump in rooftop PV installs between October and November, as the race to install solar ramps up ahead of Christmas.
Solar and battery giants unite to fight “outdated” inverter rule change
Some of the biggest solar and battery names in the world call for rethink of inverter changes they say will cause rise in prices.
REC launches production of TwinPeak 5 solar modules, shipping by Christmas
Global solar outfit starts production in Singapore of the fifth generation of its award-winning TwinPeak residential PV panels.
VPP specialist raises funds to install 600MWh of rooftop solar and battery storage
Swell Energy has raised $US120 million to roll out 600MWh of rooftop solar based virtual power plants, including 26,000 home battery storage systems.
Heat pumps: The fastest growing solar technology you’re probably overlooking
Air Source Heat Pumps, which extract latent heat from the atmosphere and pump it into a water storage tank, are so hot right now. Here's why.
How “flexible exports” will save us from the Big Solar Button
South Australia's current grid woes give us a feel for the state of rooftop solar management ‘in the wild’ – and it’s much more interesting than it would first appear.
Rooftop solar payback set to shrink to three years, thanks to costly coal and gas
Clean Energy Regulator says forecasts of high energy prices into 2023 and 2024 could see the payback period for rooftop solar cut by another year.
Solar, storage, microgrids sought for Ukraine as Russia attacks the grid
New Use Energy and a group of nonprofits are working with medical professionals and others to keep the lights on as Russia makes Ukraine's grid a war target.
ACT launches tender for community battery to support all-electric solar suburb
ACT launches stage one of tender to develop a community-scale battery to support homes and the grid in one of the territory’s first gas-free suburbs.
