After decades of polarising installers with their uniquely capable range of inverters, solar panels, batteries & EV chargers, SolarEdge has called time on Australia.
Orders will be accepted for the next fortnight for delivery by December 18th at the latest, so if you have plans to expand an existing system, you’ll have to hop to it.
Solar industry Christmas has just rolled around again, and like the rest of the renewable industry it just keeps growing. From insulation tips to the latest solar gear, here’s an account of this installer’s adventures at All Energy Australia in Melbourne. [Continue reading…]
Western Australia is moving to become the first state in Australia to legalise plug-in solar panels and batteries, potentially giving renters and apartment residents a way to generate their own electricity without installing a conventional rooftop solar system. The Cook Government says households could save around $240 a year with plug-in solar, rising to $500 […]
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I walked the floor last week at Australia’s biggest solar trade show, All Energy, to judge the best in each product category for our annual show roundup video (watch it above!). The video gives a minute to each product – gotta cater to the short attention spans of YouTube – but this post will go […]
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Surging EV and home battery uptake has insulated many Australians from global oil and gas price shocks, but more can be done to maximise their benefit to the grid. So heard attendees of All Energy Australia 2026, with the country’s largest clean energy conference converging on the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre October 28-29 to […]
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RESINC Solar & Batteries has been recognised as Australia’s best-rated solar installer for the second year running. The NSW-based company accepted the Customer Choice Award on stage at SolarQuotes’ Installer Night on Tuesday, October 27 at Melbourne’s Showtime Events Centre.
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A solar installer who claimed to be working on Melbourne installations while interstate has been fined $10,000, as Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator (CER) continues its crackdown on operators breaking the rules. The case is one of several enforcement actions highlighted in the regulator’s latest quarterly compliance update, which includes two other installers barred from participating […]
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You have to hand it to the fossil fuel disinformation machine; they’ve done an amazing job of keeping people poor in many senses of the word. Driving through Adelaide recently, I caught sight of another mind-boggling example and thought I’d capture it for posterity – Australians stuck in a huge queue for discounted fuel.
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Last week two flaws in PHP went public. PHP is the programming language behind SolarQuotes and a big slice of the web, and these bugs had been sitting in its code for about 14 years. AI models found them. Within 45 minutes of the announcement, Cloudflare was seeing tens of thousands of attempts to exploit […]
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Customers buying home batteries are often going for “whole home” backup on the assurance that going forward, everything will be solar powered. People are however alarmed when bills lob in the letterbox with hundreds of dollars consumption charged out. How is that even possible?
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