One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
Many Australians are under the mistaken impression that their solar panels were made in Australia, and nearly half expect a pay-back from their investment within 5 years.
A 99kW solar PV system installed at Brunswick Town Hall in Melbourne becomes first in Australia to use Trina Solar mono-crystalline technology, to overcome issues of rooftop shading, accessibility.
Nearly half of all solar households have no idea how to maximise the value of their rooftop solar investment. They think the best thing to do is give it back to the grid for next to nothing. Some education is needed.
“Arbritrage” sounds like a brilliant idea, but is it really worthwhile charging a battery from the grid at off-grid prices?
For the first time, a traditional network company is leveraging non-network solutions to fix an age-old grid problem that used to mean only one thing: more poles and wires.
Community solar investor round in Sydney’s inner-west raised more than $17k in 9 minutes to put solar on the roof of a craft brewery in Newtown.
Behind the scenes of the first utility-scale plant to be proposed and completed by an Indigenous Land Council – the 1.8MW solar PV system at Ayers Rock Resort.
This August marks four full years of Solar Choice’s PV Price Index. Here are some charts following the changes in average solar PV system prices from 2012.
A well designed off-grid solar and battery storage system can supply most households’ needs easily, even in Australia’s tropical north. But some know-how is needed.
ACT govt-funded installation of 500kW solar array is underway at Canberra Hospital, part of project that will save it $490,000 by 2017-18.
