Solar

RateSetter wins plum role in South Australia's $100m home battery finance

UK-based peer-to-peer lender RateSetter wins key role managing $100m in finance that is being offered alongside the South Australia government…

October 19, 2018

NSW offers free rooftop solar for low-income households – in place of energy rebate

NSW government trial will install 2.5kW of rooftop solar, free, for low-income households that forego their energy rebate – a…

October 19, 2018

Microgrid proposal to help Yackandandah reach 100% renewables

Victorian government backs microgrid in Victoria's north-east that will trial the use of solar, storage and smart controls to manage…

October 18, 2018

WA trials Tesla battery on suburban grid in top solar postcode, Mandurah

WA government sets ball rolling on a “shared storage” trial that will install a 105kW/420kWh Tesla battery on the grid…

October 18, 2018

World’s largest micro-grid to be built in Republic of Palau by Engie

Palau to add 35MW of solar and 45MWh of storage to help transform its diesel dependent grid.

October 17, 2018

Biggest little town looks to revive Australia's littlest big hydro

Nearly 100 years after town of Mullumbimby got together for the country's first community owned power plant, it is looking…

October 15, 2018

WA VPP project promises 90% solar self-consumption for cost of "a coffee a day"

Australia's "first" privately funded VPP hopes to sign up 1000 homes and businesses in south-west WA to zero up-front cost…

October 15, 2018

Trial to run Monash University on 100% renewables backed by ARENA

ARENA tips $2.9m into microgrid trial to use a locally designed smart software platform to help run Monash University's Clayton…

October 12, 2018

Solar Insiders Podcast: Solar’s big year, and Senec storage

Solar’s big year, an interview with German battery storage maker Senec, and a round-up of the highlights of the All…

October 11, 2018

Ausgrid hopes community storage can help it engage with consumers

Australia's networks have gone from raising the drawbridge to lowering it, inviting new technologies and ideas on to their platform.…

October 11, 2018