Despite promising to reduce energy storage costs, Tesla keeps increasing the price of its Powerwall home battery.
On September the 23rd I woke up at 5:00 am to listen to Elon Musk’s Battery Day announcement where the world was told Tesla would cut the cost of batteries in half by 2025. We were told they would:
This is the third electric Mini Cooper SE to be sold in Australia and the first in Adelaide. Ronald spent the weekend with it. Here’s what he thought.
For two days last week, I managed to get my hands on an Electric Mini Cooper SE. I tried to take it for a spin, but its traction control wouldn’t let me, so the good news is it’s safe to drive. It was also a lot of fun. [Read more…]
This article would have a lot more detail if I could have actually spoken to someone in the ACT government about it. It wasn’t for lack of trying. I called them 4 times, was on hold for 53 minutes, to no avail.
Do you have a Pensioner Concession Card?
Do you own a home in the ACT?
Does the roof of that home lack solar panels? [Read more…]
If SA needs to hit the big red button and shut down rooftop solar installed after 28 September 2020, SMA inverters can comply – at no extra cost to the owner.
On Thursday I was invited to a webinar on SMA’s response to South Australia’s new solar inverter requirements. It seems that SMA — the maker of Sunny Boy inverters — was on the ball as all their residential inverters are on SA’s approved installation list. [Read more…]
Yesterday in SA, solar met 100% of demand for a short period. Hence the need for remote curtailment of new solar. SolarEdge inverters can meet this requirement. Image: Rob Morris
Update 14th December 2020: Good news! SolarEdge has informed me they no longer charge an additional $165 to cover the cost of meeting South Australia’s new inverter requirements. SolarEdge instead now absorbs the cost, which is obviously good news for anyone thinking of getting a SolarEdge system in SA.
On Thursday at 3:58 pm I was invited to a SolarEdge webinar that started at 4:00 pm. I was glad to get the invite, but the lack of notice meant I missed out on the first 5 minutes because I didn’t have time to set up my laptop/internet properly beforehand. This was very appropriate because the webinar was about how SolarEdge had responded to new South Australian solar inverter requirements that were rushed in before the industry had time to properly prepare. [Read more…]
Short Answer: Yes. While the payback of solar in Perth is now longer, you can still own your Perth home faster with solar power than without — despite WA’s miserable feed-in tariff.
Longer answer: Read on… [Read more…]
It’s 5:30 am and I’m sitting in SolarQuotes office waiting for Elon Musk’s big battery day announcement. This is pretty early for me, so it had better be good. I don’t normally come into the office until 5:45 am.
I have no idea what Elon’s going to say except it’ll be about batteries. [Read more…]
The famous, termite-proof South Australian Stobie Pole that holds SA’s distribution network off the ground.
The most interesting presentation at this year’s Smart Energy virtual conference was only 9 minutes long and by Future Networks engineer, Cathryn McDonald. [Read more…]
I just flew back from a virtual conference and, boy, are my virtual arms tired. I attended the 2020 Smart Energy Conference and Exhibition by sitting at my desk — a huge improvement over hauling my arse and other body components to Melbourne as I normally do. [Read more…]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how ACE-EV plans to open a factory and produce tens of thousands of electric vehicles per year in Adelaide.
I’m hoping it will happen because I was impressed when I took their electric cargo van for a spin.
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