Seraphim 325W MX solar panels will feature at Bullarah Solar Farm, a clean power station to be constructed 95 kilometres west of Moree in New South Wales. [Read more…]
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$407 Million Darlington Point Solar Farm Approved
The NSW Department of Planning and Environment announced yesterday it had approved a 275-megawatt solar power project to be situated approximately 10km south of Darlington Point, near Griffith. [Read more…]
Over Estimating Electricity Price Inflation For Fun And Evil Profit
Beware Of Salespeople Making Ridiculous Electricity Price Increase Predictions
A rooftop solar power system is an excellent investment for any home that isn’t at the bottom of a well or otherwise suffering from major shade problems. Earlier this year I wrote an article on payback times in Australian capitals but it’s already out of date as they pay themselves off even faster now. [Read more…]
Australia’s 43GW-61GW Of Residential Rooftop Solar Potential
Australian grassroots solar advocacy group Solar Citizens says while 6GW of solar capacity is currently installed on residential rooftops throughout Australia, there’s potential for much, much more. [Read more…]
Alpha ESS Battery Review: Everything You Need To Know About The Storion-SMILE
The Alpha ESS Storion SMILE battery is the second battery eligible for the SA Battery ‘rebate’. But is it worth considering?
Update: SQ’s in-house installer, Anthony, has more recently written about the Alpha ESS SMILE5 battery here.
Alpha ESS is a Chinese manufacturer of home battery systems. Because they have promised to do some assembly in Adelaide they are now the second company eligible to receive South Australia’s substantial home battery subsidy, as reported by Michael here. More batteries will become eligible in January. [Read more…]
How To Use Solcast To Check Your Solar Panels’ Performance
By Dr. Nick Engerer
Note from Finn: This is a guest post by Dr Nick Engerer – Solcast is a super handy, free, quick and accurate way to check what your solar power system should have produced in the last 7 days. [Read more…]
City of Ryde Eyeing 60% Renewables By 2030
In a meeting on Tuesday, Sydney’s City of Ryde gave the nod to investigating the potential of substantially amping up its use of renewable energy sources. [Read more…]
Is Labor’s $2,000 Battery Subsidy A Waste Of Money?
On Wednesday shadow Prime Minister, Bill Shorten, gave some details on the plans for energy Labor will throw into motion if they win the next election. According to all the little people inside my TV, this election will occur within 6 months but it may be almost a year away. [Read more…]
Why Spending $100m On Coal To Hydrogen Project Is Stupid
Dumb and Dumber: Federal and Victorian governments spending $50 million each on Japanese coal to hydrogen project.
The Federal and Victorian Governments are spending $100 million building a Japanese coal to hydrogen demonstration plant. That’s $50 million each. Before any of you get upset at the cost, I’ll mention I originally thought it was $500 million, so we’re already $400 million better off than I thought we were a few hours ago. At this rate I’m sure coal to hydrogen will be making money for the average Australian in no time. And in other news, monkeys may fly out of my butt. [Read more…]
Help! I Bought Solar But My Bills Are Still High
If you bought a solar power system and your bills are still high, then either your system is not working or you haven’t considered the big picture of energy-efficiency, hot water heating and system size.
In this post you will discover:
- Why – if you want tiny bills – buying a solar power system is about more than buying a good system from a reputable installer.
- How to quickly estimate if any solar panel array is working well in 3 minutes, with or without monitoring.
- How to work out if your electricity retailer is billing you correctly or ripping you off.
- Just how hard-to-use most inverter manufacturer monitoring software is – and why you should always buy a good third party monitoring system such as Solar Analytics to go over the top.
- How following the 7 steps in my book – The Good Solar Guide – virtually guarantees tiny bills and no surprises.
- And how to read The Good Solar Guide for free.
So let’s get started shall we… [Read more…]
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