Posts By Anthony Bennett On SolarQuotes

About Anthony Bennett

Anthony joined the SolarQuotes team in 2022. He’s a licensed electrician, builder, roofer and solar installer who for 14 years did jobs all over SA - residential, commercial, on-grid and off-grid. A true enthusiast with a skillset the typical solar installer might not have, his blogs are typically deep dives that draw on his decades of experience in the industry to educate and entertain. Read Anthony's full bio.

All Singing All Dancing All Stackable At All Energy 2025

Trying to minimise merch can be a challenge.

What’s known in the industry as Solar Christmas is over for another year. At each of these events we seem to have an underlying theme. It was batteries last year, and nondescript white 5kW boxes the year before.

So what was big this year? Stackable all-in-one solutions.
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Poorly Protected Wires Risk A Disaster In Your Roof

Electrical conduits are the tubes used to protect and route wiring. Get them wrong and you’ll make roof spaces even more unsafe than they already are.

So what does good conduit work look like? Read on while we peek above the manhole.
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Solar Spring Clean: Has Your Inverter Turned Into A Bird Nest?

Winter is waning, Spring has sprung, as the temperature lifts, so should your gaze. You may find a hot mess on top of your solar inverter because even the best can suffer birds nests.

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Think The EV Transition Is Impossible? Look To The North

A car charging in snowNaysayers claim electric vehicles simply won’t work at scale in a country like Australia. Yet there are countries with far more unfavourable conditions for EVs that are leading the way.

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Daycharging; It’s Time To Deploy Power Points Everywhere


We need more EVs charging during the day. Not just fancy charging stations – plain power points in every car park will do the trick.

It will offer huge benefits, drawing cheap solar energy when its plentiful and freeing cars up to discharge back to the grid at night.

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Cheap Bollards For Batteries Are Bollocks


If you have a home battery installed in a garage, carport or driveway, chances are it will be behind a bollard. While Australian regulatory standards call for “protection”, here’s some better ways to abide by the rules.

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Batteries Aren’t The Only Way To Store Your Solar

Solar used to be simple; but in todays frenetic world, energy rates change by the hour, so managing your consumption is more important than ever.

Read on while we explain how you can make best use of different options for energy storage, and the smart technology to automate it.

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Winter Sucks Money Up The Chimney

broken wood stove
If, like me, you own a character home, it’ll have some unused and outdated features which need dragging into this century.

In this article, we’ll be looking at ways to deal with chimneys, because with the cost of energy these days, nobody needs a gaping hole in their house.

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Flat By Tea Time: Why A Small Battery Is A Big Problem

House with grocery delivery and solar and battery
Having noticed a few different hardware retailers and grocery shops making moves into the home battery market, it seems prudent to point out the pitfalls of cheap small systems.

Recently we detailed why bigger isn’t always better, but this time around I’d like to explain how we arrive at just right.

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Smart Energy Needs Smarter Customers

Recently the Smart Energy Council held a conference in Adelaide and by all accounts it was a roaring success, much like the battery incentive that’s currently driving the whole solar industry.

When the SEC said they were looking for industry experts to offer some insight, I figured they’d emailed me by mistake, but I went along anyway with some images to riff off of and enough notes to wing it for 15 minutes of fame.

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