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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Community
Community energy steps up: decarbonising at the local level
Community Power Agency reports on the many projects taking off and some of the remaining barriers.
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Renewable grid
100% renewable grid: just how feasible is it?
With ongoing discussion by government and media about the effect of renewables on the grid, Renew’s Andrew Reddaway and Damien Moyse consider the feasibility of 100% renewables for Australia.
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Solar & batteries
PV and hydro powered Tassie off-grid home
Given their distance from the nearest power pole, it made sense financially as well as philosophically for this Sydney couple to go off-grid in their new home in Tasmania. Peter Tuft describes how they went about it.
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Solar & batteries
Know your renewables: off-grid basics
With reducing grid reliability and steadily increasing electricity prices there’s been renewed interest in giving energy companies the flick. Lance Turner takes a look at the how and why of going off-grid.
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