Solar

Boutique retailer Urth Energy offers customers chance to cash in on wholesale rates of electricity when exporting their solar power back to the grid.

New solar modules are producing nearly twice as much as early models at the start of the solar boom. That is important as households add storage, provide power for electric vehicles and consider going off grid.

We are witnessing a horrible dumbing down and commoditisation of solar and storage in Australia, when it should be the reverse.

Community solar programs are popping up rapidly, offering electric customers an opportunity to own a slice of solar energy production.

GCL Poly says the first of its lithium-ion battery storage units, the E-KwBe, has been installed at the Brisbane HQ of a local solar installer.

Farmers are finding that using solar and storage to create their own mini power stations is cheaper, cleaner and more reliable alternative to diesel or dependence on the grid. Power hungry irrigators, in particular, are finding quick paybacks.

One of Australia's largest mutual banks has installed solar on four of its buildings, in measure that will save it $750,000 over five years.

Kiribati will "practice what we preach" with 548kW of solar installations in South Tarawa, cutting diesel fuel imports by 230,000 litres a year, saving govt $US290,000.

IPART survey finds up to 60% of NSW solar households will come off the premium FiT in December; meanwhile, some 22% don't even know what they're being paid for their solar exports.

I'm on the edge of solarization, and I want to be clear—with myself at least—why I’m doing this. Just what am I hoping to get out of it?

As the industry awaits the regulator's decision on a proposed NEM rule change that would give "local network credits" to distributed energy generators, a major Australian study has found such a measure could save $1.2bn on avoided network infrastructure costs.

The Los Angeles City Council took a major step Friday toward making the city run on clean energy alone.

City of Port Phillip to save $44,000/year on electricity costs with installation of 172kW solar on the roof of St Kilda Town Hall.

A farm near Busselton WA has installed a 100kWh vanadium redox flow battery with solar to avoid paying for a new connection to the grid.

A new community solar investment round is set to be launched in NSW, with the aim of installing 1MW of solar on homes and businesses in the state's north-west slopes region.

Renewable energy is having its 5 minutes of fame with the installation of solar and battery storage at the latest subject of The Block – a first for the reality TV series.