Last month, Lyndon Rive, Tesla’s Vice President for Energy Products, stood up in front of a large group of people, including me, and promised the Powerwall 2 will deliver a return between 8% and 15%.
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Scheme To Donate Solar To The Sydney Opera House Is A Boondoggle
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.
[Continue reading…]Solar Air Conditioning Vs. Heat Reflective Paint
It can get bloody hot in summer thanks to the sun blazing down on our roofs and making them hot enough to not only fry an egg, but some bacon as well. This post is about stopping the summer sun heating your roof, turning your home into a metaphorical oven.
[Continue reading…]Australian Company To Elon Musk: We’ll Supply Twice The Storage in 100 Days For Half The Price
These are, quite literally, dark days for national energy security. The South Australian grid is in disarray and blackouts threaten to engulf other states as soon as summer rolls around again or adverse weather conditions strike.
[Continue reading…]How GST On Solar Is Calculated
Let’s say you have just been quoted a nice round $7,000 for a brand spanking new rooftop solar system with 5 kilowatts of panels. With Australia’s 10% Goods and Services Tax, you might expect the GST portion of that quote to come to $700. Or, if you didn’t go to school in Toowoomba like I […]
[Continue reading…]BYD Brings B-Box To Battery Battleground
BYD is the world’s largest manufacturer of rechargeable batteries Those three letters stand for Build Your Dreams and apparently their dream was to build a battery box and sell it in Australia because that’s exactly what they’re doing with their B-box battery systems.
[Continue reading…]Will it be illegal to install a single phase Powerwall 2 from Thursday?
Unless your local electricity network provides a local variation to a new Australian Standard that becomes mandatory on Thursday, it may be illegal to install a Powerwall 2 plus solar on a single phase.
[Continue reading…]Tindo Solar, Australia’s Only Solar Panel Manufacturer, Bought By SA’s Cool or Cosy
Tindo Solar, Australia’s only manufacturer of Solar panels has been bought by South Australia’s insulation, solar installation, and energy efficiency company Cool or Cosy. The deal was announced on… Well actually, it hasn’t been announced yet1. But since I’m from Queensland, obviously I know Julian Assange, so you can trust me to know all the […]
[Continue reading…]A Reader’s Frustrations With The Enphase Enlighten Monitoring System
There are many people in this world who enjoy monitoring the output of their rooftop solar systems. But other people – not so much. For example, I don’t think my parents have checked the output of their system since they got it. My father just looks at the electricity bill every three months and grunts, […]
[Continue reading…]OneSolar Review. One Word: Avoid
When it comes to choosing solar panels and inverters, we recommend sticking to well known brands. Over the years we’ve seen lots of obscure panel brands hit Australian shores, often with slick websites, and almost always with dubious claims of being ‘engineered’ in anywhere-but-China. Our experience is that the quality of these mysterious brands is often poor, […]
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