solar

Arsenal Football Club goes 100% renewable with solar deal

English Premier League club’s Emirates Stadium now runs on 100% renewable energy following solar offtake deal with Octopus Energy.

August 9, 2017

Solar plants are taking root on farms

Solar installations are cropping up on farms across the US, and not just to cut power costs. In some cases,…

August 8, 2017

Will solar powered cars ever be real?

The Sunswift team has designed and built Eve to be registered as a road legal sports car, representing a shift…

July 31, 2017

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…

July 12, 2017

Should "invisible" rooftop PV be discouraged?

The boom of solar in Australia is great, but traditional PV systems are essentially invisible to our networks and our…

July 5, 2017

Payback vs rates of return: How to judge the value of your rooftop solar

In most cases, investing in a domestic solar PV system or in energy savings measures has become a positive financial…

June 28, 2017

IPART bumps up benchmark range for NSW solar tariffs

Regulator further lifts benchmark for NSW solar tariffs – well above AGL’s proposed tariff – but rejects notion rooftop solar…

June 28, 2017

Schools are leading the charge on solar in Sydney’s East

A joint initiative by Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra Councils, Solar my School is helping schools make the switch to solar…

June 28, 2017

Why 2.6GWh of battery storage is achievable in next few years

It has been argued that the CSIRO’s report was “a stitch up” for renewables, and very obviously designed to downplay…

June 6, 2017

Australia’s largest solar retailer served with “wind up” notice by tax office

Australia's biggest solar module retailer, Eurosolar, served with wind up notice from ATO. Company says it is a mistake, but…

June 6, 2017