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The Sonnen Battery: Expensive & Warranty Unclear

  Sonnen is a German company who have been making home batteries longer than Tesla.  They were originally known as sonnenBatterie but shortened their name and called their battery system that.  Its full name in Australia is the sonnenBatterie eco. Their system is 100% made in Germany using 100% made in Japan batteries and their […]

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The Tesla Powerwall 2: Batteries Can Finally Pay For Themselves

Powerwall 2 technical details.

Today at 12:15 Eastern Standard Time, Elon Musk announced the arrival of the Tesla Powerwall 2. Some people were enthusiastically looking forward to this announcement, but I was not. I fully expected to be underwhelmed, and as soon as Musk finished his two or three sentences on the actual system, I felt a near fatal […]

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Solarwatt Solar Panels’ 30 Year Product Warranty Is World’s Best

solarwatt homepage

When it comes to product warranties for solar panels, the American company SunPower has long been king with one that lasts for 25 years.  Not only will they replace any of their panels that fail in that time, but they will send people around to install a new one free of charge and cart away […]

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Trina Solar’s Honey Plus Polycrystalline Panel Sets A Sweet Record With 19.86% Efficiency

Trina honey logo

Trina Solar announced a new world record for solar panel efficiency on Tuesday. The announcement was made via a press release that was mostly comprised of words. But that wasn’t all it contained.  Oh no, this press release was far too important to get by just using them. It also contained numbers, punctuation, and percentage […]

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Has Maxim Just Killed The Microinverter & DC Optimiser?

3 maxim chips compared to a micro inverter and dc optimiser

Maxim Integrated is a Californian electronics company that has been going strong for 33 years and has only ever been delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Exchange once.  As you may be able to tell from their name, they like to integrate things and have developed a way to optimise the power from individual solar panels using […]

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Why over hyping batteries hurts the solar industry.

I feel so strongly about this that I though I’d shout at a video camera about it for 7 minutes. Hit me up in the comments if you think I’m being too harsh.

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Chevy Bolt Electric Car Reveals How Cheap Batteries Really Are

chevy bolt and 6 x LG Chem Resu 10

Looking to buy some LG Chem batteries but don’t want to pay full price? In that case, I have a little scheme you might be interested in. If you want to, you could buy an LG Chem RESU6.5 battery system which will set you back around $1,000 per kilowatt-hour of storage. Or you could do […]

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How To Clean Solar Panels

solar panel cleaning

I have already written about why it doesn’t make sense to pay people to clean your solar panels. I also wrote it doesn’t make a lot of sense to clean them yourself. Once you add in the value of your time, the chance of falling off the roof and killing yourself, and how cleaning panels […]

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New LG Chem RESU Batteries: Smaller, More Powerful And Cheaper Than A Powerwall

The vital statistics of the 48 Volt LG Chem RESU battery systems.

If you are in the market for a home battery and are tempted to buy a Powerwall, then I urge you to also consider the new range of LG Chem batteries announced last week. Whilst LG have been unable to compete with Elon Musk for mainstream media coverage, the LG Chem RESU, or Residential Energy […]

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Australian Politicians Confuse Wind Power And Powerful Winds

wind vs wind power

Yesterday all of South Australia was blacked out and parts of the state are still without grid power today. This occurred because a powerful storm damaged transmission lines and the entire state grid automatically shut down as a safety precaution to prevent more damage. Restarting a grid after a complete shutdown is complex and requires […]

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