One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
WA solar installer says increasing consumer concern about future risk – both in terms of what power bills will look like, and the services they’re going to get from the grid – is shifting attitudes to going off grid in regional areas.
The home of the Victorian Greens leader has become the first in the state to install a Tesla Powerwall battery, alongside a 5kW solar system. Barber says solar plus storage is the only way to tackle Victoria’s “perverse” energy markets.
NSW Farmers has updated its Solar PV + Battery Financial Analysis Calculator to more accurately estimate the financial performance of a given solar PV-battery system on the basis of the reduction of consumption of high-cost grid electricity.
AGL Energy has released a new version of its energy management app that includes data on customers’ rooftop solar performance, and “in future” could allow them to trade directly with the grid.
Not all solar and storage systems are created equal. New energy management solutions – targeting the Australian market first – are hitting the market. There’s no point replicating the dumb grid inside your home.
Australia’s first household to add a Tesla Powerwall battery can this week begin buying and selling electricity on the market, after the addition of a world-leading software program by Canberra company, Reposit Power, effectively turning it into “a mini power station”.
Tesla Energy has launched recruitment drive in Australia this week in an effort to get the company to scale to support soaring demand for its Powerwall battery.
First Tesla Powerwalls to be installed in Australian homes, as the US battery storage maker extends its network of fast-charging stations for its up-market EVs.
ARENA-backed project to investigate how PV and storage systems could provide ‘behind the meter’ power needs for suburban communities.
With residential battery storage set to boom, a new consumer report by the CSIRO answers some of the key questions we should all be asking about the technology many predict will be a feature in half of all Australian households by the end of the decade.
