Solar

#Stayinghome to help fight Covid-19 is not all bad news for power bills. We asked a number of solar households what they were experiencing at home.

The solar roof of Norway's Skagerak Arena roof is the core of a sophisticated microgrid that not only powers the stadium but also 15 nearby homes in the city of Skien.

Australian households invested in almost two-and-a-half “Big Batteries” worth of home energy storage in 2019, installing 22,661 systems over the course of the year with a total capacity of 233MWh, and taking further control over their energy supply.

Sentinel Property Group installs 100kW solar system at its River Quays building in Townsville – an office complex whose tenants include Indian mining giant Adani Resources.

Rooftop solar on a Covid-coaster, the last of the one-for-one tariffs, and Tindo Solar’s Glenn Morelli on battery storage boom and plans to expand module factory.

Northern Territory to provide $6,000 grant for homes and businesses to install battery storage, funded by a cut in the solar feed in tariff.

Rooftop solar installs enjoy another record month in March, but delay in registrations may hide the impact of Covid-19 as pandemic clouds future.

Tesla data shows how household batteries orchestrated through "virtual power plants" provide critical system security services and respond to price signals to push down costs for all consumers.

Smart Energy Council webinar warns rooftop solar installers to "get deadly serious" about Covid-19 infection control, or “shut up shop” the for the next three months.

CEC and others push for Australia’s rooftop solar industry to continue operating during Covid-19 lock-down, but looking increasingly unlikely.

Visy Board cleared to send power to the grid from a nearly 2MW rooftop solar and Tesla Powerpack system the company installed on a facility in Gepps Cross, South Australia.

An award-winning UK solar research project at Swansea University has tapped the zinc-bromine flow battery technology of Australian energy storage company Redflow.

Indigo Power calls for EOIs for crowd-funded investment to expand community owned renewables projects across Victoria.

Western Australia farm takes its 26-year old business off-grid with solar PV and 40kWh of zinc bromine flow batteries from Australian energy storage company Redflow.

After flying off the shelf in 2019, the March allocation of the Victorian government's home solar rebates has barely shifted. Is this a sign of Covid-19 hitting demand?

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought great uncertainty to the solar industry. Demand is up in some quarters, and down in others. But there is real fear of a brutal slowdown.