A panel of Australian solar industry veterans yesterday discussed the current state of play with regard to home battery storage in Australia. [Read more…]
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Worrisome Results From Canberra’s Battery Test Centre
Canberra’s Battery Test Centre has been going a couple of years now. What do the results so far tell us about the state of the home battery market?
I am very happy. I just found out there is a battery testing centre in Canberra. Who would have thought there would be something useful in Canberra? Besides, of course, for the Federal Government and the bureaucracy that’s necessary for the functioning of a modern representative democracy.1 [Read more…]
Construction Kicks Off On Victoria’s Renewables-Powered Shopping Centre
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Construction commenced yesterday on a project aiming to be the world’s most sustainable retail development – Burwood Brickworks Shopping Centre in Victoria. [Read more…]
Go-Ahead Given For Morwell Power Station Demolition
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While recently heritage-listed, the Heritage Council Of Victoria has granted permission for owners of the defunct Morwell Power Station to demolish it. [Read more…]
Landlord Energy — Providing Solar For Commercial Tenants
If you are a business owner there’s an excellent chance you’re not happy with cost of grid electricity and would love to lower your bills with rooftop solar. Unfortunately, there’s also an excellent chance you rent your business premises and so don’t have much of an incentive to install solar. After all you can’t take it with you when you leave. [Read more…]
New Solar Homes Robbed Of Choice In ACT: Demand Or Time-of-Use Tariffs Only
If you live in ACT and install solar – you are forced to choose between 2 not very great electricity tariffs.
If you are getting a new house built or having solar power installed in the ACT I have some bad news. You will lose the ability to freely choose between electricity plans. You will no longer be able to select a standard tariff; which is usually best for solar households. Instead you will be forced on to either a time-of-use tariff or a demand tariff. [Read more…]
Lyon, JERA and Fluence Formalise Energy Storage Collaboration
Lyon Group, JERA and Fluence have banded together to pursue further utility-scale battery storage development and investment opportunities in the Asia Pacific, including Australia. [Read more…]
505kW Commercial Solar Project For Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula
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Mornington Peninsula salad growers Hussey and Co. are set to have a 505kW solar power system installed at their Somerville facility with the assistance of an Environmental Upgrade Agreement (EUA). [Read more…]
Half Cut, Split-Cell Solar Panels: Higher Efficiency & Better Shade Tolerance
Don’t let a half-cut solar installer install your half-cut (AKA split-cell) solar panels.
Silicon solar cells of the type now used for almost every residential solar installation in Australia have been around for a long time. They are 64 years old. This makes them the same age as nuclear power generation. They’ve come a long way since they were first made at Bell Labs in the United States. Originally they were only able to convert around 6% of the energy in sunlight into electrical energy but now the most efficient solar panels on the market manage 22%.
Unfortunately, the days of large improvements in efficiency have long been over. Now we only see small incremental improvements and one of these in use that will be much more common in the future are panels that use half-cut solar cells. These panels are known as both half-cut and split-cell solar panels. [Read more…]
Fossil Fuel Giant Shells Out Cash To Sonnen
German solar battery manufacturer sonnen has announced its latest financing round raised €60 million (around AUD $92.86 million) , and among the investors was Shell Ventures. [Read more…]
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