21st October 2016 Not everyone was going without power in the middle of the South Australia blackout on Wednesday. Those in off the grid remote areas, or simply off the grid in the big city, had everything working just fine.…

15th September 2016 According to a new report from the independent financial think tank Carbon Tracker Initiative, renewable power generation costs are already lower on average worldwide than fossil fuels. The new sensitivity analysis published by Carbon Tracker this week, End of…

6th September 2016 Some utilities may think that it will be up to a decade before there is a mass market uptake of battery storage, and the chair of the Australian Energy Market Operator may even try to convince themselves…

20th April 2016 One week after the University of New England announced plans to build a self-funded solar array that would halve its grid electricity use, the University of Melbourne has called for tenders to install close to 2MW of…

12 March 2016 The U.S. energy storage market just had both its best quarter and best year of all time. According to the GTM Research/Energy Storage Association’s U.S. Energy Storage Monitor 2015 Year in Review, the U.S. deployed 112 megawatts of…

16th September 2015 Labor leader Bill Shorten has pushed the case for household solar and battery storage, noting that energy markets are in the midst of a “seismic shift” and an “energy revolution” that is being driven by individual consumers.…

22nd May 2015 Hockey’s budget announcement last week had a number of interesting points in it, most notably though is the $20,000 tax deduction for small businesses. This raises a great new opportunity for your solar business, now is the…

15th April 2015 We believe that solar + storage could reconfigure the organization and regulation of the electric power business over the coming decade. —Barclays, Utilities Credit Strategy Analyst Report, May 2014 In 2014, a chorus of analyses from major financial…

14th April 2015 The cost of batteries is one of the major hurdles standing in the way of widespread use of electric cars and household solar batteries. By storing surplus energy, batteries allow households to reduce power bought from the…

16th March 2015 The International Energy Agency has hailed a “surprising” and “unprecedented” halt in the rise of global carbon dioxide emissions – an event it directly credits to the growth in solar and wind power, increased hydro, and the decline…