Vales Point Power Station | Image: Public Domain
A 45MW solar farm could soon be built on an old ash dam at a coal fired power station on the southern shores of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales.
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Solar Hot Water Diverters Beat Batteries On Energy Storage
If you want to store your solar energy, should you put it in a battery or in your hot water cylinder?
Update: Compare all the hot water diverters available in Australia here.
How A Diverter Can Give You Solar Hot Water And Store Energy At A Lower Cost Than Batteries
A solar hot water diverter is an electronic device that sends surplus electricity from your rooftop solar to your electric hot water cylinder. This reduces, or even eliminates, the need to use grid electricity to heat water. Under the right circumstances diverters can save you money and allow you to store energy at a cost lower than batteries.
Australia’s Redback Technologies To Expand
QLD Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at Redback Technologies HQ
Solar and storage solutions developer Redback Technologies, based at University of Queensland’s Long Pocket campus, plans to boost its workforce significantly over the next 6 months.
Australian Solar System Interest Index (auSSII) August 2017
We’re very pleased to publish the first in what will be a monthly report on the current state of solar power interest in Australia – the SolarQuotes auSSII report.
How To Use a Fronius Smart Meter To Solar Power Your Hot Water
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…]
What Does The Reduced STC Price Mean For Solar?
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…]
Green Light For More Large-Scale Solar Projects In New South Wales
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.
Solar + Storage Proposed For Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment
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…]
Sunshine Coast Solar Farm Connected To The Grid
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.
COAG Energy Council Meeting Outcomes : Reactions
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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