City of Kwinana Installs More Renewable Energy Capacity | Image: Public Domain
The City of Kwinana in Western Australia recently installed 384 solar panels on the Darius Wells Library and Resource Centre.
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Solar To Help Cut Queensland Police Service Electricity Costs
Leanne Linard MP And Assistant Commissioner Brian Wilkins | Image : QPS
Solar panels to be rolled out on the rooftops of 40 police stations in Queensland will put a dent in QPS’s $13.5 million (and rising) annual electricity spend.
July Solar Feed-In Tariff Increase Roundup
Solar panel image: B137, CC BY-SA 4.0
Other electricity retailers have announced solar feed in tariff increases since AGL’s recent announcement – find out how much you could be getting for your solar power from July 2017.
Energy Price Rises In NSW And SA From July 1
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.
Solar Power Funding For Food Rescue Groups
More solar energy for Foodbank | Image: LG
The Australian Federal Government is providing $1.2 million in funding to assist food rescue groups reduce their energy costs and boost their food storage capabilities.
Electricity Bills Are Rising Because Of A Lack of Competition And Coalition Opposition To Renewables
Ronald unveils the true culprit behind current electricity price rises.
Australia’s grid electricity prices are about to soar so high they’ll probably suffer from altitude sickness. Households in all states, with the possible exception of Tasmania, are looking at increases in electricity bills of roughly 20% over the next two to three years. [Read more…]
Community Solar Power Funding Opportunity In WA’s Avon River Basin
Sustainable Community Grants – Avon River Basin
Grants that can be used towards community solar energy projects are up for grabs in the Avon River Basin region of Western Australia.
Solar Owners Secure As Electricity Prices & Solar Feed-In Tariffs Rise
If you own a good-sized solar power system, rising electricity prices are not a worry, in fact some solar owners will see their bills decrease thanks to rising feed-in-tariffs.
Australians don’t pay the highest electricity prices in the world, but we’re working on it. [Read more…]
Blackouts In SA While Generators Stand Idle & Politicians Bicker
Joyce titters, Weatherill gets mad, Australia cooks.
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 build a Great Wall of South Australia. I’m sure it would be effective at keeping foreigners out. After all, who’d want to enter a state surrounded by shitty bricks?
To all the people who are acting like this is some sort of unprecedented event2, I have to ask which bloody country do you live in? Rolling blackouts during heatwaves in Australia are not uncommon and have occurred in every mainland state, including those that are almost entirely powered by coal.
But for those who are complaining for the right reasons, your anger is bloody well justified. [Read more…]
How many solar panels should you install with a Powerwall 2?
Installing more rooftop solar is a better investment than a Powerwall 2, so always rack up as much solar on your roof as you reasonably can first. Unlike this guy.
The Tesla Powerwall 2 is going to be big. Really big. I mean that literally and not figuratively. It’s going to be big as in 13.5 kilowatt-hours of storage big. From the point of view of most Australian households that is huge.
This large capacity presents households with two main problems:
- It is more than the average Australian household uses at night.
- Those that do use that much electricity overnight may not have a rooftop solar system large enough to fully charge it.
So if the average Australian home buys a Powerwall 2 they will use it at less than its full capacity. As Tesla’s warranty is fixed at a maximum of 10 years, this increases the cost of each warranted kilowatt-hour substantially.
The obvious solutions are:
- Don’t install a Powerwall 2 unless your household regularly uses 12+ kilowatt-hours of electricity overnight.
- Don’t install a Powerwall 2 unless your solar system normally produces enough surplus electricity to fully charge it on a mostly clear day. Normally this will require at least 5 kilowatts of solar panels.
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