Every year, we survey SolarQuotes installers about their favourite solar panel. For the 2026 edition of the Installer’s Choice Awards, we asked them:
“If you were putting solar panels on your own roof today, which brand would you choose? Not the house of a customer. Not a display home. Not a hypothetical stranger you’ll never see again. Your own roof, your own money and a system you’ll be living with for decades.”
Last week I went to Intersolar Europe in Munich, and the first thing to tell you is the scale (watch my video above to get a real feel for the exhibition).
The minimum level of charge a battery will keep up its sleeve can be customised to best suit your priorities – whether it’s maximising energy trading profits, blackout protection or reducing degradation. You can even tweak it temporarily in response to unusual conditions – as I found during a power price surge earlier this week.
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You might have noticed that grinding artificial stone kitchen benchtops was banned in 2024. Health and safety laws have caught up with the silica dust created when grinding cement products, and for solar installation that means dry grinding tiles is no longer acceptable.
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This winter solstice has just rolled by, and while the days will be getting longer, the season is far from past. While the conditions persist, it’s worth checking in on your battery to see how it’s coping with the cold.
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Electricity pricing has become so complicated that Australia’s energy rule-maker wants future power plans to be as easy to understand as buying milk. That’s one of the key messages from a major Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) review released last week, which sets out a long-term roadmap for simplifying electricity pricing as rooftop solar, home […]
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Free power windows arrive for most Australians on July 1. If you own a battery, you probably want to configure it to take advantage, and fill it for free, from the grid. But your battery will not do this on its own. Out of the box, it has no clue your free window exists. Somebody […]
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SolarQuotes customer Louise Potgieter invested in a home battery system expecting to cut her bills down to size. She went on holiday, only to return to an unpleasantly large bill. She’s written about what happened, what to look out for, and how the right inverter paired with a 3 free hours of power plan solved […]
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NSW households earning up to $210,000 a year can now access interest-free loans of up to $15,000 for solar, batteries and a range of home energy upgrades, under a new $557 million state government program.
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Two years ago, SolarQuotes explored one of the trickier challenges facing would-be EV owners: how do you charge an electric car if you don’t have a driveway? The solutions ranged from cable covers and drainpipes to charge gullies and elevated cable systems. There was no shortage of ideas, and the comments section quickly filled with […]
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