Look at what’s been bolted onto the typical Aussie home in the last decade. A solar inverter reporting panel output to your phone. A battery that trades with the grid while you sleep. A heat pump hot water system that heats from surplus solar, an EV charger with its own app.

Then open the switchboard. It’s the same thing your parents had, with better breakers and less asbestos.  [Read more…]

Last week I went to Intersolar Europe in Munich, and the first thing to tell you is the scale (watch my video above to get a real feel for the exhibition).

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SA Power Networks (SAPN) has been given the green light to continue its Market Active Solar initiative for another year; a project seeking to support and reward solar owners to better manage exports and self-consumption for the benefit of the wider grid. [Read more…]

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has granted New South Wales electricity distributor Ausgrid a controversial trial waiver so it can experiment with the co-ordination of community batteries and private solar power installations within part of its networks. [Read more…]

WA electricity distributor Western Power has launched what it says is the first dedicated Distributed Energy Resources (DER) testing lab in Western Australia. [Read more…]

All-Energy Australia 2025 may be done and dusted, but the southern hemisphere’s largest clean energy event certainly hasn’t been forgotten. SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock highlights some of the many products showcased, from connectors to home batteries. [Read more…]

Chinese solar manufacturer GoodWe last week celebrated 15 years since it was founded. Learn more about the firm and its activities in Australia. [Read more…]

Australian solar cell innovator SunDrive has been given another helping hand by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to support the firm bringing its home-grown tech to market. [Read more…]

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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A new $25m Solar for Apartment Residents (SoAR) scheme backing shared rooftop systems has launched, offering to cover half the cost of solar for multi-unit dwellings in NSW.

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