Seven companies will receive grants to deliver bulk solar panel and hot water system installations to vulnerable households and support the switch away from gas.
Companies get funding to deliver solar and heat pumps to vulnerable households
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“Resilient” renewable microgrid to power bushfire-threatened town for up to five days
Work starts on solar and battery based microgrid to help power one of the Victorian towns hardest hit by the 2019-2020 Black Summer of bushfires.
Electrification: 60 low-income homes to be be shifted off gas in network trial
Sixty households in the coal town of Morwell and the surrounding suburbs will have their appliances changed from gas to electric by the end of 2024.
AusNet hints at online error as solar, battery rejections spark industry anger
As concern grows that solar and battery storage is being blocked in some parts of Victoria, AusNet says efforts to fast-track the customer connection process may have caused some applications to be wrongly rejected.
Are solar export limitations blocking home battery storage in Victoria?
Households in eastern Victoria wishing to be energy self-sufficient by investing in solar and battery storage are being blocked by AusNet’s grid connection rules.
