Posts By Michael Bloch On SolarQuotes

CEC Calls For Statewide Microgrid Rollout For Western Australia

Solar energy and microgrids in Western Australia

Image credit: Western Power

It’s time to get cracking on microgrids in fringe-of-grid locations across Western Australia says the Clean Energy Council. [Read more…]

Gladstone Getting Its Large-Scale Solar On

Solar farms for Gladstone, Queensland

Image: Renew Estate

A proposed solar farm project near Gladstone may be shifting sites, while a couple of other projects in the pipeline for the region will be among the largest PV facilities in Australia. [Read more…]

SolarEdge HD Wave Inverter Wins Edison Award

SolarEdge HD-Wave inverter

SolarEdge was named the gold winner in the renewable energy category of this year’s Edison Awards for its HD-Wave inverter technology. [Read more…]

An End To New Offshore Oil And Gas Permits In New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern ends new offshore gas and oil permits

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern | Via Facebook

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced last Thursday that no further offshore oil and gas exploration permits will be issued by the Government, but this doesn’t mean activities will end overnight – not by a long shot. [Read more…]

CEC To Solar Installers : Check The Approved Products List

Approved Products List - CEC

Solar panel image Stocksnap

Many solar panel and some inverter models have been removed from the Clean Energy Council Approved Products Lists this year – and the CEC has again warned installers not to get caught out. [Read more…]

Solar To Help Power Queensland Hospital Linen Services

Group Linen Services - Commercial Solar

Wide Bay Group Linen Service’s Maryborough Facility | Image via Bruce Saunders MP/Facebook

One of the largest linen service providers in Australia is to have solar panels installed on its facilities in order to cut electricity costs and emissions. [Read more…]

ABC Check Out Home Solar Power In Australia

ABC The Checkout - Solar Power

King of the gods Jupiter (not Ronald, although the two are often confused) explains home solar in ABC’s The Checkout.

ABC’s The Checkout ran a jam-packed 10-minute segment on home solar power basics on Tuesday night, covering a broad range of topics – and SolarQuotes received a couple of mentions.  [Read more…]

Adelaide’s CBD Could Host More Than Half A Million Solar Panels

Centrepoint Building with solar

Image: Spatial Analysis of Solar Potential in Adelaide

Analysis released yesterday by the Australian PV Institute indicates Adelaide’s CBD could support 129MW of solar panels on the rooftops of its buildings. [Read more…]

Regulator Issues Agent Warning On Non-Existent Solar Installations

STC compliance - solar panels

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has alerted registered agents of a scam involving the creation of small-scale technology certificates (STCs) for solar power systems that don’t exist. [Read more…]

Apple And Google Achieve 100% Renewable Energy Goals

Renewable energy - Google and Apple

The two technology behemoths say they’ve achieved important renewable energy goals they set for themselves – and both have more renewables in the pipeline. [Read more…]

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