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…
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…
Rooftop solar sales rebound as households brace for another power price shock
23rd August 2023 After hitting a 12-month low in April, installations of rooftop solar systems have rebounded in May, jumping by around 30 per cent and charting the largest monthly total of new capacity added for the year to date.…
Rooftop solar system sizes hit record high with 10kW shaping up as new norm
3rd August 2023 The call from industry experts to “cover the roof” in solar panels, as we move rapidly towards all-electric homes and cars, might be gaining some traction, with new monthly data showing the average home system size hitting…
Solar eliminates nearly all grid demand as its powers South Australia during day
21st December 2022 The combined forces of rooftop and utility scale solar met the equivalent of all of South Australia’s electricity demand for more than six hours on Sunday, as “operational demand” was nearly eliminated as it fell to a…
Dramatic lift in solar battery sales as households seek energy “insurance”
25th September 2022 Ever since Australia’s wholesale energy market started going haywire, all eyes have been on the rooftop solar and home battery market looking for an uptick in installations as consumers seek to slash their consumption from an increasingly…
Tesla slashes price of Powerwall battery again, this time by more than 10 per cent
14th May 2023 Tesla has slashed the price of the Powerwall household battery for the second time in as many months, this time by more than 10 per cent thanks to the falling price of materials and the freeing up…
Home battery installs jump 55 pct as solar households turn to storage in record numbers
30th March 2023 Just under 50,000 battery energy storage systems were installed in households around Australia over the course of 2022, a new annual record and a 55 per cent increase on the numbers in 2021, new data has shown.…
ACT launches new rooftop solar rebate for low income households
22nd May 2022 Lower income households in the ACT can apply for a discount of up to $2,500 on the cost of installing rooftop solar, starting this week, as part of the territory government’s newly launched $50 million Home Energy…
Victoria opens solar, battery, energy efficiency grants to community groups
5th March 2022 Victoria’s Andrews Labor government this week rolled out $1.3 million worth of grants for community organisations across the state designed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste, with another $1.8 million now available for clean energy…