A pair of Powerwalls in Toowoomba, QLD. (Installation Credit: Green Solar)

Update 12 Feb 2024: The Queensland Battery Rebate is live.

Update 24 Apr 2024: The Battery Booster Program will end at 11:59 pm on 8 May 2024.

With the resignation of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk providing a first-rate distraction, Queensland last week joined the ranks of Australian states supporting home solar battery storage with a rebate program. [Read more…]

Word is on the street that new builds in Victoria no longer have to use a gas-boosted solar hot water service. [Read more…]

Victorians with solar power will get less for their exports if a draft determination by the Essential Services Commission goes ahead: the commission wants to cut another 33 per cent off the state’s feed-in tariff by July 2024. [Read more…]

A still From Tesla’s battery manufacturing video.

Battery prices have begun falling again after rising during 2022, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). [Read more…]

Sweden’s Northvolt is touting a specific energy of 160 watt-hours per kilogram for its newly announced sodium-ion battery cell. [Read more…]

LG’s battery recall saga rolls on, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recommending to Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones that he issue a national product safety notice for the solar storage units. [Read more…]

It doesn’t quite rate a “record tumbles” headline, but LONGi has added a couple of extra points to solar cell efficiency: its crystalline silicon-perovskite (CSP) tandem cells have set a world record efficiency of 33.9 percent. [Read more…]

Neoen’s grid-scale battery planned for Canberra is built, but it will take until next year for it to be connected, due to delays in compliance testing. Known as ‘Capital Battery’, the battery packs are manufactured by CATL and can support 20% of ACT’s peak summer demand. [Read more…]

The global Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) integration market is becoming dominated by five key players as deployments of grid-scale batteries take off worldwide. [Read more…]

Given that climate change will cause more extreme weather events, hailstorms are bound to pose a growing challenge to solar farm operators. [Read more…]