Communities
Tasmania’s first community microgrid, with rooftop solar and Tesla battery storage, is successfully powering a group of social housing tenants at the edge of the state’s grid.
Households
New data shows Australians installed more than 31,000 battery energy storage systems around the country in 2020, a 20 per cent jump on numbers in 2019.
Businesses
AGL’s purchase of Epho and Solgen is a major endorsement of the booming market and the latest sign of a period of consolidation.
Households
Australia’s rooftop solar market snaps back into gear after a well-earned slow-down in January, putting installs on track for another record-breaking year.
Households
As rooftop solar continues to boom around Australia, an increasing number of households are coming up against strict limits to the amount of energy they are allowed to export to the grid, some of which cannot export their solar at all.
Off-Grid
Western Australia to build and install 1,000 standalone power systems including solar, battery and hydrogen electrolysers, to replace poles and wires and diesel gen-sets, and boost the state’s green manufacturing sector.
Redflow’s largest shareholder puts his investment to work, with 280kWh ZBM flow battery system that with solar will “eliminate” grid electricity costs for his Tassie farm.
Powershop says it’s “gutted” after sub-brand Kogan Energy was found to have offered cheaper electricity tariffs exclusively to non-solar customers in Victoria.
Solar Analytics spells out the What, When, Where, Why, How and Who of the AEMC’s draft determination on rooftop solar export charges, and then asks – still Worth It?
The Australian arm of one of the world’s top 10 dairy processors will shift to just under 50% renewable electricity for its Australian operations via a PPA with Engie.
