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Totally Renewable Yackandandah
Totally Renewable Yackandandah (TRY) is at the forefront of regional towns making the shift to renewable energy, as Matthew Charles-Jones described at a recent Renew branch meeting in Melbourne.
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Buyers guides
Renewable energy courses guide
Since we last ran our renewable energy courses guide in 2016, there’s been an expansion of course offerings in both scope and sophistication.
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Efficient homes
Living building challenge – Enhancing the local environment
Central to the Living Building Challenge is design that takes account of much more than thermal performance, such as giving back to the local economy. Sasha Shtargot looks at one of the first projects taking this on in Australia.
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Energy monitoring
Knowledge is power: energy monitoring guide
Need help getting the upper hand on your electricity bills or checking that your solar system is working?
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Solar & batteries
Battery system case studies
When Julie May retired and bought a new home in Canberra, she decided to invest her savings in a sustainable lifestyle to reduce both her environmental footprint and her cost of living in retirement.
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Solar & batteries
Feeding the grid: solar payments
The ATA’s Keiran Price explains how minimum solar feed-in tariffs are set and helps demystify an intriguing new time-of-day feed-in tariff proposed for Victoria from July 2018.
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Solar & batteries
Off-grid on the edge: Not quite off-grid, but reliable
Jayne and Cathy Malcholm struggled with power reliability in their location on the edge of Melbourne, so in 2016 they installed battery backup as part of their long-term plan to go off-grid. They describe the system and results.
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News & events
News: Small battery uptick
Recent figures from the Clean Energy Regulator, outlining the uptake in Australia of small-scale battery storage, reveal a 914% increase (693 to 7032 units) from 2014 to 2018.
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Products
Product profile: Flexible solar laminates
The Flex series of flexible solar laminates from MiaSolé (owned by solar giant Hanergy) are designed to stick directly to suitable roofing profiles (such as standing seam roof sheets), eliminating mounting systems and roof penetrations from screws. The modules are based on CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) cells and have efficiencies as high as many crystalline silicon panels.
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Solar & batteries
Solar monitoring basics
You don’t have to be a solar monitoring obsessive to get useful information from your solar system. Lance Turner explains the basics of solar monitoring.
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Solar & batteries
Getting solar: from research to install
One homeowner shares the steps to planning a successful solar electricity system.
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