Solar

An electricity market "about as bad as you can get" has helped put household solar – and storage – back in the spotlight of Australia's renewables shift, prompting forecasts of "massive growth."

Imagining an Australia where every town is running off its own renewable energy projects is slowly becoming a reality, and the Victorian Government is on the case.

Monash Uni offers long-term contract for 55GWh of new wind or solar in Australia's biggest non-government renewables tender, to date.

UK-based company run by Australian solar entrepreneur provides leases for solar in poor rural farming communities.

A Daintree Rainforest community's decades long campaign to get network supplied power has caught the attention of the federal energy minister and ARENA. But not all of the community's residents are on board with the idea, and say off-grid living is the way to go.

Some suburbs in Australia have more homes with rooftop solar than without. Here are the country's solar hotspots.

LG Chem's RESU home battery systems to team with Selectronic's Australian made SP PRO inverters – a tech duo to challenge the Tesla Powerwall 2.

Consumers want to take back control of their power supply, but is going off grid really the best use of solar and storage?

Tesla mobile app update allows Powerwall owners to monitor and manage their solar and battery storage “power flow”.

The addition of solar panels at 15 new buildings means Stanford’s Silicon Valley campus has added 4.5MW of renewable energy to its local grid.

Australian developed solar technology that aims to tackle the dominance of diesel generators in the temporary power market will be tested at the 1MW scale in New South Wales, off the back of a new grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.

Gold Coast Council investigating proposal to install floating solar on city's wastewater ponds, to cut grid power costs and evaporation.

Some of Victoria’s key former gold and coal mining centres targeted by $1m fund to support development of community renewables, and solar and pumped hydro.

Whether in Kentucky or California, the United States of America is moving away from coal because solar, wind, and even natural gas are less expensive.

The 1,805MW of solar PV capacity on rooftops of Queensland homes and business now more than biggest power station by capacity in the state, overtaking the 1,780MW Gladstone coal plant.

The fossil fuel industry’s scare campaign over renewable energy has seen households and businesses flocking to install solar on their roofs.