Posts By Michael Bloch On SolarQuotes

In a fight between Hanwha Q Cells and JinkoSolar, Longi Solar and REC Group, who would win? We’re going to find out. [Read more…]

Image: Western Power

After 20 years of service in what were probably at times pretty harsh conditions, the solar panels and batteries at Western Power’s communications tower at Mount Frankland needed replacing . It wasn’t an easy task. [Read more…]

Image: Horizon Power

Fourteen remote farms in Western Australia’s Esperance region will soon be ditching electricity supplied via conventional powerlines for solar energy based micro power systems (MPS) from Horizon Power. [Read more…]

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A huge number of Australian households who are renters are locked out of solar power savings. A new initiative from the Queensland Government is trialling a way to help address this – but there are a few catches. [Read more…]

Germany’s Sono Motors has released the first images of its solar power assisted electric car – the Sion – as it will appear at market launch. [Read more…]

Better late than never – construction of Risen Energy’s 100MW (AC) Yarranlea Solar Farm west of Toowoomba in Queensland is moving along. [Read more…]

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Karadoc Solar Farm was officially opened last week, while not far away its sister project at Yatpool is under construction. [Read more…]

The trend towards increasingly larger solar power systems continued in February as Australians sought to get the best returns from the electricity bill-busting technology. [Read more…]

Victoria’s  Essential Services Commission (ESC) has set new rates for solar feed-in tariffs from July 2019. The single rate will be boosted,  shoulder/off-peak time-varying rates will be increased and the peak rate slashed. [Read more…]

Gelion Endure – still early days for the aesthetics

A new type of energy storage platform was put to work at the University of Sydney last night by Gelion Technologies. [Read more…]