When wading into the murky waters of rooftop solar for the first time you may have come across people advising you to check that the solar company doesn’t use sub-contractors to install their systems. [Read more…]
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Solcast Update: Check Your Solar Panels’ Performance For Free
Wondering if your solar panels’ are still operating at their optimum efficiency? A free online tool from Solcast precisely calculates how much energy your panels should have generated yesterday, enabling you to swiftly identify any performance issues. Here’s how to use it.
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Improving Australian House Construction: The Case for Service Ducts
Spot the difference.
The sound of Dad’s drill bit, as long as my arm, boring through the thick stone walls of our 1875 home, was a childhood constant. The sound of regular home improvements. [Read more…]
“THEY’RE STEALING MY ELECTRICITY!” The Truth About Feed-in Tariffs
For some time, I’ve been both amused and increasingly disappointed by how people perceive solar feed-in tariffs. [Read more…]
Sungrow Leads As Market For Giant Batteries Soars
The global Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) integration market is becoming dominated by five key players as deployments of grid-scale batteries take off worldwide. [Read more…]
Weathering the Storm: Innovations in Hail-Ready Solar Farm Technology
Given that climate change will cause more extreme weather events, hailstorms are bound to pose a growing challenge to solar farm operators. [Read more…]
The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Enphase
Thanks for the image, Matt Hines
Certain products earn a loyal following for a reason, and Enphase, the world’s biggest microinverter maker, is no exception.
Trees Overshadowing Solar Panels: State And Territory Rules
Save the trees? What about saving the solar panels? Dare I say it, I like trees even more than solar panels, and that’s a hell of a lot. But in a cruel twist of irony, it’s obvious they are not compatible bedfellows. [Read more…]
Your ‘Right To Light’: Solar Panel Overshadowing Rules By State
Overshadowing of solar panels by new neighbouring developments is a recurring problem that some SolarQuotes readers have first-hand experience with. This is an issue that’s not going away soon. It’s only getting worse as our cities grow. [Read more…]
Why Solar Installers Hate Tiled Roofs
You can see from the dirt, this isn’t a fresh break, it’s just a typical tile failure.
You’d be silly to build a house with a tiled roof.
I can’t make it any simpler, but as we explore more subjects in the series of how to talk to builders, hopefully I can explain the many reasons why tiles make a poor choice for solar roofing. [Read more…]
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