Many households only realise after installation they’ve bought a battery system that is locked to a single manufacturer’s software.
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I reported on Thursday on the record lift in mortgage commitments for first home buyers in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by the Albanese government’s expanded 5% deposit scheme, which came into effect on October 1, 2025. The December quarter of 2025 saw $19.310 billion in lending to first home buyers, an increase of
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DXY stopped falling last night, possibly as Trump withdrew ICE from Minneapolis. The AUD strongman refused to fall as much as broader risk supported by North Asia. I do not think that Beijing will allow the CNY upside acceleration for very long. Gold and oil fell after the American madman suggested Iran talks should continue.
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An angry Michelle Bullock won’t hear a bad word about the Australian economy. Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has fired back at Nationals senator Matt Canavan after he accused her of “gaslighting” Australians over the state of the Australian economy. Ms Bullock has also rejected repeated efforts by the federal opposition to pin the blame
Ingeteam has delivered more than 250 new PV inverters to repower and modernise a decade-old California solar plant.
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Installing the North Star battery was simpler and cheaper and than most other projects in the mining company's job list to reach real zero by 2030.
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Fortescue has launched the first of its massive battery trains, which it says the hardest part of its goal to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030.
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The US Republican Party has accused Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of “calling for the execution” of President Donald Trump, after she called him a “pedophile” and suggested that he would be put to death if he were in her native Somalia.
The first gigawatt scale battery built by AGL Energy, which remains the country’s biggest generator of coal fired power, has recently begun charging and discharging from the grid, and will be guided by algorithms developed by the company’s own in-house team. The 500 megawatt (MW), 1,000 megawatt hour (MWH) Liddell battery is being built in […]
Following the reopening of international borders after the conclusion of the Covid-19 pandemic, Canada experienced a record surge in immigration alongside a corresponding rise in rents. The following chart from the National Bank of Canada from February 2024 illustrates the situation at the time, with both population growth and rents exploding: Temporary residents drove Canada’s
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is spending the last day of his trip to Australia in Melbourne.
He had planned to visit the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea, which was the target of a firebombing in 2024, but that was cancelled due to safety concerns.
With the right policies, we could double rooftop solar in Australia backed by storage by 2035 and do it in a way that includes renters, not excludes them.
Asked to help a reader beat the deadline for feedback on the proposed hike in fixed network tariffs, I accidentally went and wrote a submission template.
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Asked to help a reader beat the deadline for feedback on the proposed hike in fixed network tariffs, I accidentally went and wrote a submission template.
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What does it actually look like when a normal Australian house installs solar, battery storage and EV charging?
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