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Over Estimating Electricity Price Inflation For Fun And Evil Profit

Over-estimates of electricity price rises

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  Earlier this year I wrote an article on payback times in Australian capitals but it’s already out of date as they pay themselves off even faster now.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…]

Oxfam Australia : 100% Renewables, No New Coal

Oxfam on coal and renewables in Australia

Oxfam has warned Australia is at risk of falling even further behind in the climate change battle, isolating it from its neighbours in the region. [Read more…]

Australia’s 43GW-61GW Of Residential Rooftop Solar Potential

Residential solar potential in Australia

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…]

Australian Solar Systems Interest Index – December 2018

auSSII report covering November 2018

While millions of solar power systems are now installed across Australia, there wasn’t any shortage of new interest in the electricity bill busting technology in November. [Read more…]

Noosa Council Slashing Emissions And Electricity Costs With Solar

Solar power in Noosa Shire

Image: Noosa Council

Queensland’s Noosa Council says it has installed 252 kilowatts of on-site solar power capacity across six of its facilities in the past five months. [Read more…]

Australian Rooftop Solar Power System Installations Top 2 Million

Latest estimates put the number of rooftop solar power systems installed across Australia at more than 2,001,130 – with approximately 20.3% of all Australian homes now boasting solar panels. [Read more…]

Climate Action Protest Students Not Done Yet

Climate action school student protest

Image via School Strike For Climate Action

15,000 Australian students went on strike from school in each capital city and more than 20 regional centres across Australia recently. There’s more action to come, but this time outside of school hours. [Read more…]

Opal Aged Care’s Solar Power Rollout

Opal Aged Care solar rollout

Opal Aged Care is installing more than 10,600 solar panels at 54 of its properties across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland as part of a broader energy efficiency program. [Read more…]

PM Morrison Admonishes School Strike 4 Climate Action

School Strike For Climate Action

Image: School Strike 4 Climate Action via Facebook

Thousands of Australian school students may ditch school on Friday and head to parliament to protest lack of action on climate change and renewable energy. [Read more…]

Recent Redflow Energy Storage News

Redflow ZCell and ZBM2 battery storage

Australia’s Redflow has signed a supply deal in Victoria for 32 of its ZBM2 batteries, and is working towards ZCell’s inclusion under South Australia’s Home Battery Scheme.  [Read more…]

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