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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Buyers guides
Solar panel buyers guide 2018
We’ve contacted photovoltaics manufacturers for details on warranties, cell types, size and price to help you decide which solar panels are best for you.
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Solar & batteries
Raising the roof: Solar for renters and apartment dwellers
Tenants and residents of strata complexes have traditionally struggled to access solar. Dr Björn Sturmberg and Anna Cumming look at how these groups can join the solar revolution.
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Reuse & recycling
PV recycling – Where do all the panels go?
What do you do when a panel comes to the end of its useful life? Moreover, what do you do with billions of them?
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Buyers guides
More flexible energy systems: energy storage buyers guide
With rapidly increasing demand due to increasing energy prices, there has been an explosion in the number of ready-to-use energy storage systems available. We take a look at the options available.
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All-electric
All-electric and hydronic: A model of efficiency
There's a lot to learn from this highly insulated and well-sealed renovation in Melbourne, not least how a heat pump is providing both hydronic heating and hot water. Cameron Munro explains the house's modelling-led upgrades and the tweaks made along the way.
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All-electric
Planning ahead: Three steps to all-electric
Thinking about going all-electric, but unsure what’s involved? Here we present an overview of the steps to going all-electric and where to find more information.
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All-electric
Capital improvements: The path to all-electric
Switching to electric appliances wasn’t really thought of as economically or environmentally beneficial 10 years ago when Ben Elliston’s household started their efficiency improvements, so theirs has been a gradual path to all-electric.
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