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Conduit & Solar Inverters: The Good, Bad & Fugly

Nasty inverter installation with cable conduit

Looks fine from my house…

The $200, 2-inch thick, spiral-bound ‘AS/NZS 3000 Electrical Installations’ is also known as The Wiring Rules, The Book, or The Bible. Electricians use it to beat each other over the head when they feel a fellow sparkie has strayed from the true path of holy electrical compliance. [Read more…]

Solar Helps Inner West Council Further Distance From Fossil Fuels

Sydney's Inner West Council and solar energy

Sydney’s Inner West Council has taken another big step back from fossil fuels, switching to 100% renewable energy for its electricity supply yesterday. [Read more…]

Wagga Council Adopts Corporate Net Zero Emissions 2040 Strategy

Wagga Wagga City Council - Renewable Energy

Wagga Wagga City Council’s amended Corporate Net Zero Emissions 2040 Strategy is good to go after being adopted on Monday. [Read more…]

An Idiot’s Guide To Australia’s Electricity Price Problem

Electricity price increases in Australia

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…]

Australian Solar Prices: June 2022 Update

SolarQuotes Australian Solar Price Report  - June 2022

Which state had the cheapest solar power systems overall last month? Here’s a hint – the initials are WA. Discover what Australians across the country were paying for solar in May 2022. [Read more…]

SA Electricity Prices And Solar Feed In Tariffs: What’s Happening?

ABC Radio's Sonya Feldhoff and SolarQuotes' Finn Peacock

As electricity prices in South Australia and across the country increase; solar is on the minds of many. SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock chatted with Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide’s Afternoons program yesterday about the home solar power situation in SA. [Read more…]

SA Home Battery Scheme Wind-Down: Update

South Australia Home Battery Scheme subsidy

The clock is ticking for South Australians keen on securing a significant subsidy on a home battery system. [Read more…]

AVL Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Project Update

VSUN E22 vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB)

A 300 kWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) earmarked for an Australian miner should be making its journey across the ocean soon – and a residential VRFB solution is still in the works. [Read more…]

ESB NEM Capacity Mechanism Design: Reactions

ESB - capacity market mechanism design

The Energy Security Board has released its thoughts on a proposed capacity mechanism to help heal what ails the National Electricity Market. [Read more…]

Electricity Price Hike, Solar Feed-In Tariff Boost For Tasmania

Electricity price rise in Tasmania

The bad news on electricity prices continues, with Tasmanian households and businesses also hit by power cost increases. But solar owners will see a better feed-in tariff. [Read more…]

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