Solar and in particular battery installation often dictates you must have a switchboard update.
Can this expose otherwise hidden issues in your house? Not always, but as night follows day, one thing can lead to another. [Continue reading…]
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Insulating An Apartment With Strata: What’s Allowed?
The parts of your apartment you can insulate depend on four main factors:
- Whether you own or rent
- Whether the work affects common property
- Whether it changes the building’s outside look
- Which state you live in
These points will help you figure out what you can do right away, what needs approval, and what isn’t allowed at all.
The Best Home EV Chargers In 2026 Are Made By Battery Manufacturers
With full EVs accounting for more than one in five cars sold in July 2026, home EV chargers are selling like hot cakes. To find out which chargers the experts trust, we asked our network of installers a simple question: “Which EV charger would you choose for your own home?”
[Continue reading…]Aldi Solar Expands West As Growing Pains Mount
Aldi Solar is expanding, with people in Western Australia and South Australia now able to get in line. But there are plenty of red flags to be aware of before getting a solar and battery system from a discount supermarket.
[Continue reading…]The Best Conflict Of Interest Is The One You Can See
Every year we publish the Installer’s Choice Awards, and every year the same two objections turn up in the comments within about four milliseconds.
[Continue reading…]Solar Sharer: How To Shift Appliances To Free Daytime Power
EV charging, heating, and cooling are usually the biggest electrical loads you can shift. We’ve already talked about heating and cooling in another part of this series, and we’ve also covered EVs. After those, hot water and the pool pump are usually next. But not all appliances can be shifted. Here’s how to figure out […]
[Continue reading…]Government Expands Solar Rebates For Commercial Rooftops
The federal government has announced a major expansion of Australia’s Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES), opening the door for much larger commercial rooftop solar systems to receive the same type of upfront incentive that helped drive Australia’s household solar boom. Under the proposal, the SRES threshold would increase tenfold from 100 kilowatts to 1 megawatt, […]
[Continue reading…]Fuel Excise Cut Ends, As Age Of The EV Begins
The fuel excise cut introduced to soften the impact of rising petrol prices finished at midnight on 2 August. From this point, petrol and diesel are taxed at the full rate again, so prices at the pump are climbing higher once again. It comes as new data out this week shows that electric and hybrid […]
[Continue reading…]GroWatt Manager Teabags The Clean Energy Council
There’s never a dull moment in the solarcoaster, but a GroWatt manager took things up a notch last week by getting themselves arrested after a dalliance with the Clean Energy Council (CEC).
[Continue reading…]From My Wardrobe To A Million Quotes: What’s Changed (And What Hasn’t)
This week SolarQuotes ticked over one million quote requests. Somewhere in a database is customer number one1, and somewhere in the queue right now is customer number one million.
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