Most Australians were hit with an electricity price increase in July. The exceptions were the ACT, which had a slight decrease, and Victoria whose electricity prices change now in August. [Read more…]
Most Solar Panel Warranties Voided By Shading
Shade is bad for solar panels. They work by changing light energy into electrical energy, so any shade reduces output. This makes it a bad idea to locate panels anywhere they’ll be out of direct sunlight for a significant part of the day. [Read more…]
EnergyAustralia Solar Home Bundle: Free Solar & Battery Comes At High Cost
Energy Australia — the country’s third largest electricity retailer — is offering to install a solar and battery system for no money upfront, provided… [Read more…]
An Idiot’s Guide To Australia’s Electricity Price Problem
How most Aussies reacted when they found out their new electricity rates.
Unless you live under a rock, you’d have heard about the blowout in wholesale electricity prices in the eastern states. Things were so bad that on the 14th of June, AEMO suspended the wholesale electricity market for the first time in its history. [Read more…]
Fronius Study: Energy Payback Of Solar Is Under 1 Year In Australia
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Fronius says Australian rooftop solar + inverter has CO2 & energy payback under one year.
Last month, a huge, hulking Austrian handed me a physical report called: [Read more…]
Torture Testing Reveals Modern Solar Panels Are Tougher Than Ever
PVEL 2022 PV Module Reliability Scorecard — More Panels Pass All 5 Main Tests Than Ever Before.
PVEL stands for PV Evolution Labs. Their speciality is torturing solar panels to determine how tough they are. Every year they publish a report that separates Top Performing panels from those they don’t call Top Performing. This year was no different — except in the ways it wasn’t the same. [Read more…]
How To Beat Inflation With Solar & Smart Tariff Selection
Inflation is back, and the cost of living is rising. While not as bad as headlines may claim, we’ll end up a lot poorer if inflation starts to beat wage growth consistently. [Read more…]
To Electrify Road Transport Australia Will Need 46% More Generation
Australia has more than 20 million vehicles, including 2 million heavy trucks. To electrify them all would require an increase in on-grid electricity generation of approximately 46%.
This size of this increase raises the question: Is it possible for Australia to generate enough electricity to enable a rapid transition to electric road transport? [Read more…]
How Fast Can I Charge My EV At Home?
How fast can I charge my electric car at home?
The answer depends on what you plug it into. It can also depend on which EV you have. [Read more…]
Norway Has So Many EVs Their Battery Capacity Averages 13 kWh Per Household
Norway has more electric cars per capita than any other nation. They have over half a million EVs, one for every 11 people. The combined capacity of all those rolling batteries is a whopping 34 gigawatt-hours. [Read more…]
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