Sydney Uni researchers make another breakthrough which promises, cheaper, more powerful solar panels.
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Hybrid Solar Part 2: How To Future Proof Your Solar System
Discover how to use the Hybrid Solar concept to make your solar system future proof. This bleeding edge design offers protection against feed in tariff changes and time of use electricity tariffs. Bring it on!
[Continue reading…]Bob Brown and solar energy: the Senator’s real legacy
As Greens leader Senator Bob Brown bowed gracefully out of politics this week, news of the latest milestone in the construction of Australia’s largest solar farm shows he is leaving Australian politics a far more supportive place for solar energy than he found it. Despite some sniping from political enemies both in and out of […]
[Continue reading…]The inflated STC Price Scam : The Solar Cowboy’s Favourite Trick?
The latest trick in the solar cowboys arsenal is known as the inflated STC price scam. Lear how to spot it and avoid it here.
[Continue reading…]Dubbo: Solar Power Capital of Australia!
Well done Dubbo solar power installers! If you read the mainstream press in Australia, you’d think the towns and suburbs with the biggest average take up of solar panels would be the well-to-do inner city suburbs of our major cities. Perhaps Vaucluse, Toorak or the leafy eastern suburbs of Adelaide? Obviously they’d be more likely […]
[Continue reading…]Grid Connected Solar Panels with Battery Backup (aka Hybrid Solar)
Note: This post was written in 2012 and is way out of date. >>> Please read this post on solar batteries for the latest information. <<< A few weeks ago I blogged about my mate who really hates his electricity company. In fact he hates them so much he wanted his new house to have […]
[Continue reading…]Q-Cells file for bankruptcy but are saved by Korean Hanwha Solar
The German press has just announced that one of my favourite solar companies plans to file for insolvency tomorrow (April 4th).
[Continue reading…]‘No Can Do’ for Campbell’s Queensland Solar Projects
Well that didn’t take long did it folks? No sooner had Campbell “Can-Do?” Newman adjusted the height of the premier’s chair following his landslide win in the Sunshine state, than the plug was pulled on one of Queensland’s flagship solar projects. In moves that have become familiar to solar supporters around the nation, solar (and […]
[Continue reading…]Why Your 5kW Solar System Output Is Lower Than You Expected
Is your new solar system producing the power output it should? A very common question I get from people who have just got a new solar power system is: “Now the solar panels are on my roof, how do I know what the solar system output should be?”. The solar power system owners are usually […]
[Continue reading…]Silex steals the solar show
Good news stories about the Australian solar industry have been as rare as hen’s teeth lately. With the taking of the cudgels by state governments to the highly successful feed-in tariffs (can someone please explain that again — just one more time!), to the slow sinking of the fed’s Solar Flagships program, to the march […]
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