The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has ditched a suggestion (for now) that was viewed as an enabler for a “solar tax”, after protest from thousands of solar supporters.
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Solar May Rise From The Ashes At Vales Point
A 45MW solar farm could soon be built on an old ash dam at a coal fired power station on the southern shores of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales.
[Continue reading…]Solar Hot Water Diverters Beat Batteries On Energy Storage
Update: Compare all the hot water diverters available in Australia here. How A Diverter Can Give You Solar Hot Water And Store Energy At A Lower Cost Than Batteries A solar hot water diverter is an electronic device that sends surplus electricity from your rooftop solar to your electric hot water cylinder. This reduces, […]
[Continue reading…]Standards Australia Bombarded With Home Energy Storage Submissions
Further development of aspects of controversial Australian battery storage standards will be paused after a huge response to the draft of AS 5139.
[Continue reading…]Australia’s Redback Technologies To Expand
Solar and storage solutions developer Redback Technologies, based at University of Queensland’s Long Pocket campus, plans to boost its workforce significantly over the next 6 months.
[Continue reading…]Solar + Battery Storage For The Home Depot
The world’s largest home improvements retailer is installing solar panels on 50 more of its stores, along with Tesla Powerpack battery storage at some outlets.
[Continue reading…]Australian Solar System Interest Index (auSSII) August 2017
We’re very pleased to publish the first in what will be a monthly report on the current state of solar power interest in Australia – the SolarQuotes auSSII report.
[Continue reading…]More Progress On Queensland’s Hayman And Daydream Solar Farms
Interconnection agreements have been finalised for Edify Energy’s Daydream and Hayman Solar Farms, which will be connected to Powerlink’s 275kV network near Collinsville in Queensland.
[Continue reading…]The Solar Spectrum And Why “UV Solar Panels” Are A Con Job
The sun is a very large, naturally occurring, fusion reactor in the sky. It constantly releases a vast amount of energy. Even by the standards of sky fusion reactors it’s pretty powerful and outshines at least 90% of the stars out there.
[Continue reading…]CEC Challenges Home Battery Storage Standards Overkill
Australia’s Clean Energy Council has lodged a submission with Standards Australia in an effort to change draft home battery standards it views as overkill and that will threaten residential energy storage uptake.
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