Late on Wednesday afternoon, in the middle of a heatwave, electricity was cut off to roughly 90,000 Adelaide properties for around 45 minutes. Because I have access to a working TV at the moment1 I have seen an implausible number of people shitting bricks over this incident. So many bricks I could use them to […]
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An Apology To Australian Premium Solar
I am writing this article to apologize to Australian Premium Solar, also known as APS. On the 20th of January this year I wrote an article entitled, “Australian Premium Solar Turn A 30 Year Warranty Into A One Year Warranty.” In the article I did the following: I described the APS warranty as “horrible”. I […]
[Continue reading…]Despite What The Coalition Says Or Doesn’t Say, The “Solar Rebate” Won’t End Soon
The Australian newspaper has reported that a couple of Coalition MPs have said Australia should scrap its Renewable Energy Target (RET) if Donald Trump dumps the United States’ commitment to the Paris climate agreement.
[Continue reading…]Australian Premium Solar Turn A 30 Year Warranty Into A One Year Warranty
Australian Premium Solar is a company that sells solar panels with a warranty that is truly exceptional and sets them apart from all other panels on the market.
[Continue reading…]SVTC Solar Scorecard: A Great Idea Badly Executed
The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, or SVTC to its friends, is an organisation that has been working hard for over 32 years to protect this life encrusted blob of nickel and iron spinning in space that we call Earth. SVTC campaigns to promote both safe environmental practices and ethical behavior in high tech industries. Each […]
[Continue reading…]2016 The Good News: CO2 Emissions Level Off, Cost Of Solar Falls
It has become fashionable to refer to 2016 as a horrible year. An annus horribilis. If your personal annus has been horribilis, then you have my condolences. But I think, for most of the world’s population, it has actually been a pretty good year. An annus prettigoodis if you will.
[Continue reading…]NSW Feed In Tariff Changes – Channel 9 Adds To The Confusion
Last night Channel Nine News in Sydney ran a short segment on how NSW’s high gross solar feed-in tariffs are ending in a few days time. Many of the details in this segment were not correct.
[Continue reading…]Happy Christmas From The Crew At SolarQuotes
From all of us here at SolarQuotes® : John, Rob, Jono, Ronald, Claudio, Chantel, Margherita, Bec and Finn, have a great Christmas under your LED and solar powered Christmas lights. See you next week, with a turkey sandwich and a post rounding up what happened in Australian Solar Land during 2016.
[Continue reading…]Is The Powerwall 2 A Good Investment?
Update: read about the newly arrived Powerwall 3 in Australia Tesla has announced the impending arrival of the Powerwall 2 at a promised price point that, on the surface, looks very compelling: $10,150 fully installed1, or  23c per warranted kWh. It seems particularly impressive when you consider that in Sydney and Perth, time-of-use tariffs can go to 50c per kWh […]
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