There is good news for Queenslanders looking to install rooftop solar and anyone thinking of of installing AC coupled battery systems such as the Powerwall 2. [Read more…]
LG Introduces 20.8% Efficient LG NeON R Panel With 25 Year Replacement Warranty
LG Solar has introduced a new high efficiency solar panel they call the LG NeON R. [Read more…]
Tesla Solar Roofs Are Very Expensive And Their Warranty Is Far From Infinite
In October last year, Tesla announced they were making tiles with built-in solar cells that would allow a roof to generate electricity without the need for solar panels. Installations of these solar roofs will start in the United States in June and you can go to Tesla’s Australian site and slap down a $1,310 deposit to reserve one. Tesla says they will be available here in 2018 and, given their record of meeting their own self-imposed deadlines, they should definitely arrive before the heat death of the universe. Just so long as they don’t get cancelled like the DC Powerwall 2. [Read more…]
Electricity Bills Are Rising Because Of A Lack of Competition And Coalition Opposition To Renewables
Australia’s grid electricity prices are about to soar so high they’ll probably suffer from altitude sickness. Households in all states, with the possible exception of Tasmania, are looking at increases in electricity bills of roughly 20% over the next two to three years. [Read more…]
Natural Gas Blamed For Rising Electricity Prices But Is Not the Main Villain
Last week I wrote about how electricity prices in Australia are about to shoot so high the International Space Station will have to take evasive action. It appears it’s not enough for the electricity sector to make Australians pay ridiculous prices, they are going to force us to go right to ludicrous. [Read more…]
Solar Industry Helps Boy With Laser Create Cuddly Creatures For Benefit Of Society
Bumble is a boy with a mission.
He uses an array of tools including a “laser” to produce animal like creations that bring joy to sick children. [Read more…]
Solar Owners Secure As Electricity Prices & Solar Feed-In Tariffs Rise
Australians don’t pay the highest electricity prices in the world, but we’re working on it. [Read more…]
South Australia Is Actually Second Cheapest State For Household Electricity
Grid electricity is not cheap in South Australia. Here in Adelaide it’s never a happy time when I get an electricity bill. My last quarterly bill was $203 for 389 kilowatt-hours of use. All up, that means I paid over 52 cents for each kilowatt-hour of grid electricity. [Read more…]
An Apology To USG Solar Panels
I would like to humbly apologize to USG solar panels, or to give them their full name, Universal Solar Group. [Read more…]
The ‘SA Energy Crisis’ Is A Myth Peddled By Liars
At the start of the month I wrote that South Australia’s grid was in disarray. I warned that more blackouts were inevitable as soon as summer rolled around again or adverse weather struck.
With my warning I wanted to give people a sense of perilous urgency on the need to do something about the dilapidated state of the grid that we depend upon for our jobs, our well being, and civilization itself.
But that was on April Fools Day.
I wasn’t serious. [Read more…]
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