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SolarEdge Home Battery Review: 3 Months In

SolarEdge Home Battery arriving for installation

Two years ago, I had a 6.6kW SolarEdge/Seraphim solar system installed on my house in Adelaide. A few months ago I decided to join the increasingly-less-exclusive club of home battery owners.

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Queanbeyan Council Confirms Power Partnership Pledges

Queanbeyan Council and solar power

After community consultation, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (QPRC) has selected five pledges as part of its participation in the Cities Power Partnership program.

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Haystacks Solar Garden Broadens Horizons

Haystacks Solar Garden

A pioneering solar garden initiative in Australia geared towards renters and apartment-dwellers has expanded its potential “gardener” pool to several other states.

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Green Light For New Zealand’s Tauhei Solar FarmĀ 

Tauhei Solar Farm

It’s taken just 70 working days for an application to build a solar farm in Waikato to be given an important thumbs up to proceed (with conditions).

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Tasmanian Energy Saver Loan Scheme Slammed

Tasmanian solar loan program

Tasmania’s Government has confirmed the finance partner and program provider for its Energy Saver Loan Scheme – but not everyone is impressed.

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Community Solar For South Hobart Tip?

South Hobart tip solar farm

A City of Hobart Councillor wants to see a solar farm established at the local tip site, for the benefit of Council and renters.

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Australians Edgy About Climate Change Impacts

Climate change fears

A 34-country survey for the World Economic Forum (WEF) found a significant amount of pessimism on the impacts of climate change, both here and abroad.

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The One Question You MUST Ask Any Solar Installer (+ 6 Other Solar Buying Mistakes)

Important question to ask a solar installer

You may have read Finn’s original ‘7-mistakes’ article, followed by ex WA-installer Kim’s take and SA Installer Chris’s version. Now here are the biggest mistakes I’ve seen people make buying solar during my years on and off the roofs of South Australia:

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Solar Backpacks Tracking Critically Endangered Australian Birds

Plains-wanderer - Australia

The habits of one of Australia’s rarest birds are being tracked with the assistance of tiny solar powered “backpacks”.

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(Some) Solar Installers Still Behaving Badly: NSW And WA

Solar installer investigations

Several NSW solar sparkies have lost their licences and in WA, search warrants were executed last week in an investigation into potential solar STC fraud.

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