NSW community-owned retailer to buy excess rooftop solar from customers, as well as from local community solar farms and gardens, to sell on to other customers who can’t generate solar themselves.
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Busting the solar ceiling: The fight for millions of Australians locked out of rooftop solar
New data has shown that in North Sydney, alone, 74% of residents can’t access solar because they are renters or live in apartment buildings. But there are ways to solve the problem – as well as new companies making it their mission.
Should your mortgage cover solar and battery storage, too?
Digital mortgage broker claims a homeowner with $600,000 mortgage who added $16,544 to install solar and battery storage would be more than $1800 better off a year.
Batteries included: Another new-build Australian suburb offers solar + storage
New-build Qld suburb offers houses with solar + Tesla Powerwall 2 included – enough to make them energy self-sufficient from “dawn to dusk.”
Pace of renewables shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
Responding to climate change, networks of decision-makers, such as the C40 collective of major cities, have begun adopting strategies to promote the uptake of renewable energy. Yet land use planning has seemingly begun to lag behind.
NSW Aboriginal Housing Office to put solar on 970 properties
NSW government’s Aboriginal Housing Office wants to install solar on 970 of its properties in the state’s west, where tenants are suffering “extreme energy hardship.”
Catholic schools go big in rooftop solar and battery storage
A massive solar and storage rollout has begun for schools in Central Queensland, contracting for rooftop PV totalling more than 4MW with battery storage of 3MWh.
Community retailer Enova lifts solar tariff to 16c/kWh
NSW community-owned power retailer offers solar feed-in tariff of 16c/kWh – a 33% increase on its former FiT, and higher than most competing offers.
When energy bills are hurting, only one thing makes sense
As consumers stare down the barrel of big energy bill increases, there is one thing they can do. It’s what 1.6 million Australian households have done already. It’s simple, it’s good, and it actually works.
Australia set to add 1GW of rooftop solar in 2017 as grid prices leap
Two sets of research this past week have confirmed that a second rooftop solar boom is well underway in Australia, driven by the rapidly improving economics of PV panels and storage, and by the rapidly worsening state of retail electricity prices. The first, a survey whose results were published by Roy Morgan on Thursday, shows […]