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Australian rooftop solar installs down 10% in 2015, despite fall in prices
Rooftop solar installs are down sharply in 2015, despite a fall in system prices. Are incumbents winning by slashing solar tariffs?
Giles Parkinson

Sep 11, 2015

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WA government feels the heat over “ban” on storage and EVs
Synergy and WA government rethinking “ban” on storage and EVs, blaming it on poor communications. But that’s not the whole story.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 11, 2015

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Commentary

SolarCity to provide dispatchable power from utility-scale solar in Hawaii
Hawaii utility signs contract to build integrated solar and storage system, the first utility-scale solar plant to provide electricity on demand.
Christian Roselund

Sep 11, 2015

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Queensland, Victoria look to reverse falls in solar feed-in tariffs
Both the Queensland and Victorian governments are pushing to have the benefits of the rooftop solar PV reflected in payments, in reviews to try and discover the “fair price” of solar.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 11, 2015

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Graph of the Day: solar PV vs flat-screen TV
Can the growth trajectory of solar PV be likened to that of LCD TVs? It has been, but this graph shows we’re not quite there yet on solar.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 10, 2015

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Australia tipped to have 50GW of solar capacity by 2040
Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts 50GW of solar capacity in Australia by 2040, including half of all households, massive installations on industrial facilities, and a big roll-out of large-scale solar.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 10, 2015

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Regional Vic health centre going solar via community funding model
Totally Renewable Yackandandah to use highly successful crowd funding model to install 90kW solar at local not-for-profit health care centre.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 10, 2015

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Queensland lifts large scale solar auction target to 60MW
Queensland lifts large scale solar auction target to 60MW, as it looks to kick-start big solar plants and create a “solar state”
Giles Parkinson

Sep 9, 2015

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Enphase chooses Australia for launch of plug’n’play battery unit
First battery offering from Enphase has launched in Australia – a market the US tech company says could be first to achieve battery ‘parity.’
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 9, 2015

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Solar is very cheap, but the model is broken, says Origin Energy
Origin Energy says solar is the cheapest form of energy for households, but warns that sub-standard systems – particularly inverters – are causing problems for consumers. It even suggested a “pink batts” moment could trigger the removal of remaining subsidies. But the company has also been at fault.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 8, 2015

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Graph of the Day: Rooftop solar states among top 30 generators
Aggregated rooftop solar in four Australian state now rank among the top 30 generators in Australia’s National Electricity Market.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 8, 2015

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Queensland’s Energex passes 1GW mark for rooftop solar
South-east Queensland’s Energex network now has more than 1GW of installed rooftop solar, with 2,319 new systems added in August.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 2, 2015

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