Solar

In some political and media circles, South Australia's recent power woes have been cause to question the reliability of distributed renewables. For consumers, however, these events have had precisely the opposite effect, as interest in solar and battery storage spikes.

A little over six months after I moved into a new home I have installed a combination of rooftop solar and battery storage. It's amazing what a little bit of storage can achieve.

Average solar system prices for Australia’s capital cities rose slightly between September and October, mostly among smaller systems.

Melbourne mother of a newborn baby, whose solar and storage system kept her powered across a two-day outage, used Facebook to share her good fortune with others.

The first customer installation of Redflow's residential battery storage offering – the ZCell – has been completed at an off-grid property south of Adelaide.

Newcastle Council wants to build a 5MW solar farm as part of the coal port city's plans to source 30 per cent of its electricity needs from renewables by 2020.

JinkoSolar has delivered its answer to the problem of rooftop solar shading with the Australian launch of its JinkoMX module series, which use “DC optimiser” technology from Maxim Integrated Products.

Kmart will install 100kW on the roof of its under construction outlet in Port Macquarie after successfully putting 100kW on a site in WA.

The first commercial solar farm in a project aiming to provide options for Australia’s struggling vignerons has gone live.

AGL chief says 1.4MW solar PV array across Yalumba wineries in SA shows how distributed energy empowers business, offering greater control of energy use and costs, resilience during system failures.

Most Australian households looking at battery storage just want to make the most of their solar investment and use as little grid supplied energy as possible. But what should they look to buy?

Solar shading is the dirty phrase of the solar industry. There are plenty of people who have been sold a solar system only to find that its output is far less than what was promised.

Walkabout Creek Hotel, made famous in the film Crocodile Dundee, will save more than $3,000 a year on energy after installing a 6.2kW solar PV system.

Solar and storage micro-grid will lead to town of Onslow sourcing 70 per cent of its electricity from renewables, improve reliability, reduce costs and state subsidies.

China's Trinabest has launched its residential battery storage product on the Australian market, offering two sizes of its lithium-ion phosphate PowerCube.

Energeia report finds that an enlightened Australian electricity market, built around demand-based network tariffs, could save as much as $16bn in avoided infrastructure costs and cut power bills by 30%.