Professor of Archaeology, expert on the occult, and how does one say it… reviewer of steel battery boxes.
Opal Solar is a brand owned by the Australian solar wholesaler Solar Juice. Last December they launched Opal Storage, an “all-in-one” home battery system. [Read more…]
LG’s more affordable panel range, the NeON2, has gone from a 12 to 15 year product warranty.
I like high quality panels. I really do. If a panel is well made, reliable, and comes with a full replacement warranty that’s something I appreciate. Seeing panels go up on roofs that have a decent chance of lasting longer than I will makes me feel positive about the future. Obviously not my future, but the future in general.
A major provider of high quality panels in Australia is South Korea’s LG Solar. I only have good things to say about them.
No wait, that’s not true. [Read more…]
Labor’s Jay Weatherill is out. The Liberal’s Steven Marshall is in. What does this mean for the future of renewable energy in South Australia?
The South Australian Liberals have won the election. The results seemed clear on Saturday night and are looking very definite now on Monday morning. They have a small but clear majority allowing them to govern in their own right. Now that the power is theirs, will solar and wind continue to expand in South Australia or will Premier Marshall peel off his face to reveal he is Mecha-Abbott underneath and set about destroying the renewable energy industry in South Australia? [Read more…]
Tony Abbott And Craig Kelly Want Frydenberg To Adjust The Small-scale Technology Percentage
Tony Abbott recently made a comment about the STCs that reduce the cost of rooftop solar to households and are commonly called the “solar rebate“1. Guess what he wants to do with them? Do you need a hint? Tell you what, I’ll make it easy for you and put it in the form of a multiple choice question. [Read more…]
On Saturday the 17th of March South Australians will head to school, church, the RSL, or where ever their local polling booth happens to be to cast their ballot in the state government election. I’ve already received the piece of colored paper I’m supposed to bring with me so I can vote. It’s very different from the good old days in Queensland when the only paper you needed to make your vote count was brown and in the form of a bag full of cash. [Read more…]
Installing a home battery system right now will not save you money. Maybe in a year or two it will, but I have a very short time horizon so that’s almost like never to me.
As of March 2018 I know of no battery system on the market that will save money for a household that has anything approaching normal electricity consumption. [Read more…]
In South Australia we pay a lot for electricity.
If you feel the need to respond to that statement by saying, “Well, whoop-de-doo! We pay a lot for electricity in Newcastle,” I will understand. All Australians pay too much for household electricity. This is true whether you look at historical prices or at countries you’d expect us to be similar to such as the United States or Canada. [Read more…]
In May last year I investigated what the total cost of electricity was for a typical household in Australia’s states and territories. I found that rather than South Australia having the most expensive electricity, as the Coalition claimed, once the effects of fixed charges and controlled loads for hot water were taken into account, it was the second cheapest state for household electricity.
Here at SolarQuotes we’ve put together a resource on commercial solar power called:
If you have a business but no solar panels, it’s made for you. Or if you work at a business without solar and want some cred for suggesting a money saving idea you may want to run your eyeballs over it for that reason. It’s full of solid advice and I highly recommend it. The only way I could recommend it more is if I wrote it myself. And I didn’t do that because I actually had no involvement with it at all. [Read more…]
Beautifully installed frameless solar panels on an almost flat (3º N) roof. Photo credit: Gippsland Solar
If you are checking out this article because you are planning to put solar panels on a flat roof, then odds are you’re looking to install a commercial solar system. While there are homes with flat roofs, they’re not nearly as common as flat business roofs. But whether it’s for a home or a business the basic principles of installing on a flat roof are the same. It’s just that commercial systems tend to be a lot larger. [Read more…]
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