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How To Use a Fronius Smart Meter To Solar Power Your Hot Water

August 15, 2017 2024-01-25T09:51:47 by 86 Comments
fronius hot water diversion

Note to installers: Don’t wire directly in to bathtub or the duck will die.

Over the past week or so I’ve been politely prodded  by a plethora of people pushing me to provide information pertaining to solar hot water diverters.

A ‘hot water diverter’ is a box of power electronics that that sucks up your homes’ surplus solar electricity and diverts it to an electric hot water system instead of exporting it to the grid where it would earn a feed-in-tariff.  If the whole system is well designed and installed it will  greatly reduce or even eliminate using grid electricity for water heating. [Read more…]

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What Does The Reduced STC Price Mean For Solar?

August 11, 2017 2017-09-20T11:14:03 by 7 Comments
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STC prices dropping means solar prices have risen. What has that done to solar payback times?

We were warned.

We all knew this was coming.

But who among us was prepared for the recent tumble in the price of STCs that lower the cost of rooftop solar?

Well, I was. [Read more…]

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Green Light For More Large-Scale Solar Projects In New South Wales

July 28, 2017 2017-07-28T06:07:17 by Leave a Comment
Large scale solar power in NSW

Gilgandra Solar Farm Preliminary Layout

NSW Department of Planning and Environment has approved four major solar power projects to be constructed in the west of the state.

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Solar + Storage Proposed For Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment

July 24, 2017 2017-07-24T08:22:53 by Leave a Comment
Solar power and storage for Lindeman Island

Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment | White Horse Australia Lindeman

Redevelopment of Queensland’s Lindeman Island Resort could incorporate a significant level of solar power and battery storage according to a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) released on the weekend.

Lindeman Island’s resort has been out of action since 2012, following substantial damage wreaked by Cyclone Yasi in 2011.   [Read more…]

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Sunshine Coast Solar Farm Connected To The Grid

July 24, 2017 2017-07-24T06:26:35 by 1 Comment
Sunshine Coast solar farm

Sunshine Coast Council Goes 100% Renewable | Artist’s Impression

Grid connection of the 15MW Sunshine Coast Solar Farm in Queensland on the weekend marks a couple of firsts in Australia.

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COAG Energy Council Meeting Outcomes : Reactions

July 17, 2017 2017-07-17T06:27:58 by Leave a Comment
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Clean Energy Target causes friction at COAG meeting

As expected, Friday’s COAG Energy Council meeting saw all but one of the Finkel Review recommendations approved – the Clean Energy Target (CET).

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Coal Kills. That’s For Certain

July 14, 2017 2017-07-14T06:19:01 by 8 Comments
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Coal kills – it’s a well established fact | Image : Mriya, CC BY-SA 4.0

Liberal MP Craig Kelly’s concerns about people dying as a result of high energy prices raises another issue he didn’t mention – the incredibly high death toll from coal.

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Solar For Renters? Landlords & Tenants Share The Benefits with ‘Matter’

July 11, 2017 2017-10-19T10:25:18 by 21 Comments
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Have you ever noticed that rental properties almost never have solar?

Australia has the lowest cost rooftop solar in the world, plenty of sunshine, and because we are heading towards having the most expensive pre-tax grid electricity in the world, solar is a must have for almost anyone who owns a roof.

But over the past 11 years Australian home ownership has fallen from 70% to around 66% and since it costs over a million bucks to buy a butterbox in Sydney, this figure isn’t likely to improve any time soon.  This means one-third of the Australian population is locked out of owning rooftop solar. [Read more…]

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Redflow Boss Praises South Australia’s Tesla Battery Deal

July 11, 2017 2017-07-11T08:13:57 by Leave a Comment

Redflow CEO on Telsa battery storage project

Redflow CEO Simon Hackett has said South Australia’s 129 MWh Tesla project sets up the state as a world leader in battery storage.

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Call For 3GW Publicly Owned Wind & Solar Power In Northern QLD

July 6, 2017 2017-07-06T06:35:49 by Leave a Comment
Wind, solar power and storage in northern Queensland

Image: LEAN Queensland

The Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) says 86 local ALP branches in Queensland are now supporting its call for public ownership of renewable energy projects in the north of the state.

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