Moves afoot to bring balcony solar to Australia, and new wave of products has batteries included
Unlike many countries, Australia does not allow balcony solar, which now even come with their own batteries. But that may change.
It’s time to abandon unrealistic housing targets
Announcing targets is easy. Delivering on them is the hard part. Two years ago, the Albanese government, alongside the states, announced the National Housing Accord, which set a target of building 1.2 million homes over five years from 1 July 2024, equating to 240,000 housing completions annually. This target was always overly ambitious, given that
Solar and battery households will be biggest losers from network tariff changes, advocates say
Renewables advocacy groups join the likes of Tesla to push back against proposals to increase the fixed network cost component of electricity bills.
Renewables auction delivers record number of solar projects, biggest onshore wind farm
The UK's latest renewable energy auction has secured a record amount of new development capacity and the largest onshore wind project in a decade.
Choppers and concrete pours: Helicopter joins effort to deliver huge Twiggy Forrest wind farm
A helicopter has been deployed to start stringing the transmission lines that will connect the huge Uungala wind farm to the grid in central western New South Wales.
another dishonest US war?....
Canberra’s biggest battery to fund rooftop PV and storage for charities through community benefit scheme
Another unplanned coal plant failure triggers price spike fears and supply warning
Energy regulator bans another company over doctored photos, false claims
The Essential Services Commission has banned a second company in as many weeks for allegedly using doctored photos to claim completion of efficiency projects.
Australia’s biggest coal generator learns how to make more money out of its customers and big battery fleet
AGL is making more money from customer margins and its new big batteries, but is worried about solar sharer. "It's February and we have not an ounce of detail."