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Household battery storage costs: So near and yet so far

August 3, 2016 by David Leitch Leave a Comment

Our cost of energy charts for battery storage suggest Tesla is now in the middle of the pack, Enphase looks relatively cheap and none of them is cheap enough.

Have we massively underestimated the battery storage market?

August 3, 2016 by Nigel Morris Leave a Comment

Newly released survey data suggests we may have dramatically underestimated the take up of battery storage in Australia.

Australia battery storage comparison table – July update

July 29, 2016 by Finn Peacock Leave a Comment

Here’s a summary of new batteries and new energy storage systems that have been announced in Australia in June and July 2016.

A 10-step guide to going off grid – from your utility

July 27, 2016 by Giles Parkinson Leave a Comment

Ergon Energy provides guide to households considering using solar and battery storage to quit the grid. It says it doesn’t want to scare customers into staying with them, but there are 10 things people should consider first.

Musk’s energy master plan: Is this the beginning of the end of the utility?

July 27, 2016 by Sophie Vorrath Leave a Comment

Elon Musk wants to take his vision of a “smoothly integrated and beautiful solar-roof-with-battery product that just works, empowering the individual as their own utility” to a global scale. With Australia already targeted as a key battery market by Tesla, should its utilities be worried?

ZEN Energy wins $1m battery storage tender for SA govt buildings

July 25, 2016 by Sophie Vorrath Leave a Comment

Adelaide company ZEN Energy wins contract to install more than 500kWh of li-ion battery storage at three government-owned buildings in Adelaide.

First Enphase battery storage system installed in Sydney house

July 14, 2016 by Sophie Vorrath Leave a Comment

Enphase Energy has installed its first battery storage beta system at a house in Sydney, in final phase of testing of the US-made technology before mass market rollout.