07 May 2025 Another record quarter for clean power The Australian Energy Market Operator’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics Q1 2025 shows renewable generation across the National Electricity Market hit an average 43 percent share—up five points on the same quarter last year—while operational emissions fell…
23 Apr 2025 Why recyclability matters now Australia installed its first mass wave of rooftop PV between 2010 and 2015. Those modules will begin leaving roofs in large numbers early next decade. Conventional recycling shreds glass and aluminium but loses high‑value silver, copper and…
16 Feb 2025 A new high‑water mark for suburban solar New South Wales quietly set an energy milestone at 12 : 25 pm on Saturday, 15 February 2025, when rooftop solar systems met 60.3 percent of the state’s total electricity demand. The event—verified by AEMO’s high‑resolution SCADA feed—pushed coal…
09 Dec 2024 India’s largest privately owned module maker, Waaree Energies, has sealed a multi‑year supply and engineering alliance with Australian prefabricated‑rack pioneer 5B. By marrying wafer‑thin Indian panel margins to 5B’s ultra‑fast “Maverick” field‑deployment system, the partners aim to cut the delivered…
30 Oct 2024 Australia’s clean‑energy transition chalked up another landmark in the spring quarter of 2024. The Australian Energy Market Operator’s freshly released Quarterly Energy Dynamics Q3 2024 report documents a pair of historic moments on 9 September: at 12 : 05 pm the National Electricity Market…
24 Sep 2024 Queensland has officially broken ground on Australia’s—and the southern hemisphere’s—largest iron‑flow battery manufacturing complex: a 3.2 GWh‑per‑year facility on the outskirts of Maryborough. Backed by a $440‑million state‑government capital injection and a federal clean‑energy loan guarantee, the plant will mass‑produce…
30th August 2024 A groundbreaking hybrid solar and battery microgrid installed in 2020 to help power a gold mine in remote Western Australia will have its generation capacity more than doubled, boosting the share of renewables used to power the…
26th June 2024 The federal government has launched its online Solar Consumer Guide to help make picking the right rooftop solar and battery system ‘as easy as possible.’ Australian households and businesses looking to install rooftop solar and battery storage…
21st March 2024 Residential and commercial solar could assist in detecting wildfires, if the systems were able to share the real-time data they collect that indicates smoke cover. PV (photovoltaic) systems could provide an early warning detection of wildfires by…
14th February 2024 Chinese solar PV manufacturing giant Trina Solar has announced it is launching a new range of its Vertex S+ series panels which will be designed specifically to help improve energy management of commercial buildings. The new Trina…
