Is everything in the solar industry now an all-in-one stackable system? It seems that’s where everyone is headed, because they’re fast to install and that means installers like selling them. Stackable systems were climbing the walls at the recent All Energy Australia conference, which is often a glimpse at the next big trends in home energy.
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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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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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.
Naysayers 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.
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.
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.
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.
If, like me, you own a character home, it’ll have some unused and outdated features which need dragging into this century.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.
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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