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Home battery uptake hits new highs in Victoria in final months of 2020

New data shows Victoria closed out a Covid-addled 2020 with records for solar battery rebate uptake and installation, with fortnightly…

January 19, 2021

Sonnen unveils new battery range, including home “power station” blackout solution

New SonnenBatterie 10 home energy storage range unveiled in Germany, including a three-phase "islanding" solution that turns a home into…

June 18, 2020

Australians installed 22,661 home battery systems in 2019

Australian households invested in almost two-and-a-half “Big Batteries” worth of home energy storage in 2019, installing 22,661 systems over the…

April 16, 2020

Discounted home batteries gather dust in Victoria, as solar flies off the shelf

Nearly one month in to Victoria's battery rebate, barely one-quarter of the allotted applications has been filled – in stark…

July 24, 2019

Redflow lands two new battery deals, from rainforest to childcare centres

ASX-listed Redflow announces two new supply deals for 38 of its zinc-bromine flow batteries – including one with Optus to…

November 26, 2018

Angry and frustrated, more customers are quitting the grid

Industry reports suggest more and more Australian households are choosing to quit the grid, and they're doing so for a…

April 24, 2018

Adding solar or batteries to an existing system? This might help

Adding more solar and/or batteries to your rooftop solar system is a complicated business. We have put together a tool to narrow down…

March 21, 2018

How I learned to slash my power bill, with solar and storage

In December 2016, I added 6.5kW of rooftop solar and a Tesla Powerwall 1 battery and became part of the…

March 14, 2018

Germany's VARTA enters Australia battery market, with eye on aggregation

German battery storage specialist VARTA enters Australia market, attracted by huge solar uptake and growing push to "aggregated" systems.

March 14, 2018

Adelaide Uni to add 2MWh vanadium battery system, 1.2MW solar

University to install 1.2MW of solar and a 0.5MW/2MWh vanadium flow redox battery system, cut its grid electricity consumption by…

March 7, 2018