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Solar Hot Water Diverters Beat Batteries On Energy Storage

August 22, 2017 2017-09-18T09:17:54 by 74 Comments
battery vs hot water cylinder

If you want to store your solar energy, should you put it in a battery or in your hot water cylinder?

 

Update: Compare all the hot water diverters available in Australia here.

How A Diverter Can Give You Solar Hot Water And Store Energy At A Lower Cost Than Batteries

A solar hot water diverter is an electronic device that sends surplus electricity from your rooftop solar to your electric hot water cylinder.  This reduces, or even eliminates, the need to use grid electricity to heat water.  Under the right circumstances diverters can save you money and allow you to store energy at a cost lower than batteries.

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What Does The Reduced STC Price Mean For Solar?

August 11, 2017 2017-09-20T11:14:03 by 7 Comments
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STC prices dropping means solar prices have risen. What has that done to solar payback times?

We were warned.

We all knew this was coming.

But who among us was prepared for the recent tumble in the price of STCs that lower the cost of rooftop solar?

Well, I was. [Read more…]

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Solar Panel Torture Testing: Jinko & Trina Do Well

August 1, 2017 2024-01-25T11:00:29 by 4 Comments
DNV-GL reliability scorecard

Now you know what the those DNV-GL engineers *really* get up to in their secret European HQ…

DNV-GL’s PV Module Reliability Scorecard Report for 2017 is out1 and gives some fascinating results.  You can follow that long link in the previous sentence to download your own copy of the report, but for your benefit, I’ve included my own unique analysis below, where I will give my interpretation of the results in 2,000 words or less.

Or possibly more.  I’ve only just started writing so don’t really know just how many words I’ll require, but if it looks like I’ll go over my self-imposed limit I can just leaveoutsomespaces, so it’s not really a problem. [Read more…]

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Australia’s Largest Community Solar Project Fully Funded

June 20, 2017 2017-06-20T08:03:19 by Leave a Comment
Community solar project in Canberra

Proposed site of Australia’s biggest community solar power facility | SolarShare

Strong interest in a community solar project in Canberra has resulted in it easily securing the full capital investment needed to construct what will be Australia’s largest community-owned solar facility.

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Energy Price Rises In NSW And SA From July 1

June 12, 2017 2017-06-12T08:11:14 by 3 Comments
Gas and electricity prices - NSW and SA

More gas and electricity price hip pocket pain : Image: Laura Mason

Residential and small business electricity customers in South Australia and New South Wales are about to get whacked with hefty increases in power costs.

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Australia’s Electricity Blueprint For The Future – Finkel Review Report

June 12, 2017 2017-06-12T13:12:30 by 2 Comments

Finkel Review - Energy In Australia

What’s known as the “Finkel Review” was released on Friday, a document touted as a blueprint to optimise Australia’s ailing National Electricity Market (NEM). [Read more…]

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Massive Energy Price Hike In The ACT – Rest Of Australia To Follow?

June 8, 2017 2017-06-08T18:14:19 by 1 Comment
Beat electricity price rises with solar panels

Solar power to become even more attractive. | Image: cogdogblog, Public Domain

Uncertainty surrounding national energy policy has been blamed for a huge energy price hike in the ACT. This isn’t just bad news for those in Canberra – it’s perhaps a sign of things to come elsewhere in Australia.

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South Australia Is Actually Second Cheapest State For Household Electricity

May 3, 2017 2024-01-02T15:45:46 by 14 Comments
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Not true Malcolm! A typical house in SA pays less per kWh for electricity than any other state except NSW.

Grid electricity is not cheap in South Australia.  Here in Adelaide it’s never a happy time when I get an electricity bill.  My last quarterly bill was $203 for 389 kilowatt-hours of use.  All up, that means I paid over 52 cents for each kilowatt-hour of grid electricity. [Read more…]

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Australia’s Already Expensive Gas To Become Even More So

April 20, 2017 2024-07-03T13:38:26 by Leave a Comment
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LNG/Cash Carrier – Image: Pline, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

A new report to be released today will state gas prices in Australia are set continue to increase for the foreseeable future.

The Climate Council’s “Pollution and Price: The Cost of Investing in Gas” will say a mad dash for cash in exporting Australia’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has pushed up the price of gas power at the expense of Australian households and business. This is a result of gas prices within the country now being linked to world market prices.

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Scheme To Donate Solar To The Sydney Opera House Is A Boondoggle

April 6, 2017 2024-01-25T15:35:21 by 8 Comments
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Sydney Opera House In Sustainability Scam Shocker! Photo Credit: Finn

This morning the Australian Financial Review reported on how the Sydney Opera House and Energy Australia, and apparently even the CSIRO, are teaming up to create a solar energy trading scheme that, on the face of it, is completely useless.  But, once you think it through, it clearly makes the world a worse place. [Read more…]

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