German solar panel maker launches extended warranty for PV modules, guaranteeing performance and covering all faults and labour over 25 years.
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Bushfire crisis shows the answer to future energy security lies on our rooftops
Australia’s current bushfire crisis has underscored the urgent need to decentralise our electricity grid. Building up networks of household solar batteries is the quickest, easiest and cheapest way to get this done.
Solar ceiling smashed as Melbourne apartment block shares PV and batteries
A 70kW solar 54kWh battery storage system installed on a Melbourne apartment block will use Allume Energy technology to share cheap clean power between 52 low-income tenants.
Western Sydney shopping centre taps solar to slash power bills by 25%
A 1MW rooftop solar array installed at a shopping centre in western Sydney is expected to shave an estimated 25% off its annual electricity bill.
RACV makes big push into rooftop PV with purchase of Gippsland Solar
One of Victoria’s biggest PV retailers, Gippsland Solar, acquired by major Australian insurer RACV, in deal that speaks volumes about Australia’s booming rooftop PV market.
Australia’s first “solar garden” bears fruit for NSW community housing tenants
First “solar garden” in Lismore hailed as breakthrough for community solar projects in Australia and for those “locked out” of solar.
Bosch Australia taps solar, efficiency as global giant goes “carbon neutral”
Bosch Australia installs 3,000-panel rooftop solar system at Victoria headquarters, as global industrial giant announces plan to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020.
Victoria regulator cuts rooftop solar tariff, wants mandatory time-varying FiT
Essential Services Commission wants retailers to offer customers choice of “single rate” feed-in tariff or a FiT that ranges from 9c/kWh and 12.3c/kWh, depending on the time of day.
NSW notches up new national record for rooftop solar installations
A record 60MW of rooftop solar capacity installed in NSW in November – a new monthly high for any state in Australia – as 200MW national figure broken again.
Australia’s rooftop solar boom can be good news for networks: study
Rooftop solar has unveiled voltage issues in the grid, but is not necessarily the cause. A new study shows how it can help address these voltage issues.