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…
A new go-to consumer guide to help make decisions on rooftop solar and batteries
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…
How solar panels could act as a bushfire early warning system
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…
Trina Solar launches new Vertex panels for commercial sector
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…
Reflectors in space could make solar farms on Earth work for longer every day
25th January 2024 If you happened to be looking at the sky in Europe on a cold night on February 5 1993, there is a chance you could have seen a dim flash of light. That flash came from a Russian…
Breaking even on 2 Teslas, solar panels and batteries in just over 8 years
9th December 2023 Rosemary Grundy is a systems analyst who meticulously calculated when she will break-even on her renewable energy investment in real time, using real usage, electricity and petrol prices. In December 2021 my family moved into a newly…
Community farm adds wind turbine, battery to slash energy costs by $20,000 a year
15th November 2023 The City of Casey in Victoria has installed a small wind turbine at a working community and children’s farm that is expected to slash the facility’s annual energy costs by $20,000 a year – money that can…
Households turn to lenders to fund solar and batteries as savings run out
5th October 2023 The big stash of savings Australians put away during the Covid-19 pandemic is running out and people are increasingly turning to specialised finance providers to pay for rooftop solar, batteries and electrification. But that isn’t putting new…
Trina Solar begins mass production of world’s most powerful PV modules
12th September 2023 Chinese solar manufacturing giant Trina Solar announced this week that it has begun mass production of its Vertex N 700W+ series solar modules, marking what it says is the start of the “PV 7.0 Era”. Trina Solar’s…
New charger enables EV owners to fill car battery when grid is at its cleanest
4th September 2023 EV owners can now optimise their charging during times when the grid is at its cleanest with a new charging product from New Zealand company Evnex. The E2 charger, which was unveiled on Thursday, monitors the carbon intensity…