10th August 2023 Households that quit gas and use only energy efficient, electric home appliances and cars, backed by rooftop solar and battery storage, can save $3,500 a year by 2030 – and $4,320 a year by 2050 – compared…
Is your rooftop solar performing as well as it should? Data says… probably not
24th June 2023 Some 75% of residential rooftop solar systems are not passing on the full extent of electricity bill savings they are capable of delivering, new data has revealed – either because they are not working properly or because…
Buying an EV will still save thousands, even if petrol is free
12th October 2022 With petrol and diesel prices at the pump rising to astronomic levels, are you thinking of switching to an electric vehicle? If so, you’re not alone. As can be seen from the Google Trends search data below,…
Stand-alone solar and battery systems now seen as “new normal” in regions
2nd June 2022 Stand-alone power systems that bypass the grid to supply mostly renewable energy to individuals or communities have been cleared for wide-spread installation on the National Electricity Market under new rules published by the Australian Energy Market Commission…
Get ready for a virus-driven change in energy use
July 15th 2020 As the response to Covid-19 becomes the ‘new normal’, lots of people are predicting what will happen beyond the immediate crisis. The obvious answer is ‘it depends’. It depends on how governments, business and households react. The reality…
WA solar households set for price shock as premium tariffs come to an end
10th July 2020 Thousands of Western Australian solar households may be set for a surprise as contracts signed for premium feed-in-tariffs ten years ago start to come to an end. Western Australian households which had solar installed between 1 July…
ITP battery test does your homework for you
2nd July 2020 With more than two million Australian households already installing rooftop solar pv, we have become world-leaders in distributed energy. Now home batteries are emerging as the next front in the home energy revolution. But with the popular…
Will rooftop solar blow up your kettle? No, but your local network just might
26th June 2020 One of the common refrains heard about the electricity sector is the danger of too much rooftop solar – and the voltage surges it allegedly causes that can fry domestic appliances such as kettles, toasters, fridges and…
Australia’s black coal industry uses enough water for over 5 million people
5th May 2020 Water is a highly contested resource in this long, oppressive drought, and the coal industry is one of Australia’s biggest water users. Research released today, funded by the Australian Conservation Foundation, has identified how much water coal mining…
Redflow zinc bromine batteries help take W.A. farm off-grid
27th March 2020 A Western Australian farm has taken its 26-year old business off-grid using solar PV and 40kWh of zinc bromine flow batteries from Australian energy storage company Redflow. The owners of the 34-hectare property near Gingin, 90km north…
