Cleaning solar panels: why, when and how you should do it Clean panels are efficient panels. We like to keep our windows clean so why should solar panels cleaning be any exception? The question is really when you need to offer a bit of solar panel care and how. Solar panel maintenance is a question […]
A purpose-built suburb on the Sunshine Coast has welcomed the opening of a new shopping precinct that includes full solar power and other green initiatives. Stockland Aura is a master-planned community located at Caloundra West on the southern end of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Baringa is the first suburb of this project and the Stockland […]
Australia could soon become a world-leader in exporting renewable energy with plans to transport solar power to Singapore. Sun Cable is the company behind the bold move, which aims to farm the power at a 15,000-hectare site at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. It will then send the energy to Singapore via an underwater […]
As Australians gathered together in protest for the global movement, known as #climatestrike, Google announced it’s most recent purchase: the largest corporate purchase of renewables in history. Comprised mostly of solar-related projects, it includes a whopping 1,600-megawatt (MW) of renewables. Once these projects are complete, it will increase Google’s total portfolio to 5,500 MW and […]
On 1 July, 2019, Solar Victoria launched the new round of State Rebates, and the news was good for those looking to add solar and/or batteries onto their properties. Even renters could benefit from the new scheme. For eligible solar consumers ready to take the plunge into the field, they could get as much $2225 […]
Victorian households and the industry are rejoicing at the news of a massive boost to the number of solar panels rebates that will be made available starting next month. The Victorian Government announced yesterday a tripling in the number of rebates for September and a total of 23,000 extra rebates for the financial year under […]
Climate Action Network is a community based initiative to fight climate change. It has grassroots groups with distributed leadership throughout Australia. Its mission is to bring focus to climate change and climate action from Australians. Energy Matters attended a local community Climate Action seminar in Burwood, NSW, in the suburbs of Sydney on Monday April […]
In June in Sydney, Energy Matters went to the Australian Energy Storage conference and spoke to Ian McLachlan who is Senior Low Emission Site Specialist at Toyota, and learned a lot about Hydrogen cars! It’s really fascinating. What is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle (HFCV)? Both EVs and HFCVs run from electric motors. It is […]
One of the things that the keen solar power system owner is going to do is to compare what their system says it is generating and what the electricity retailer is paying you for the power you feed in to the grid. If you choose right, then you will have a system that gives you […]
Who doesn’t want to save money? And help save the planet at the same time, of course. But let’s be frank, most people get a solar power system to reduce their power costs. In a lot of cases, the savings show up in reduced power bills. But for the more analytical, we want to find […]