For Installers | EcoGeneration

Northern Territory stimulus backs PV and storage

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 6, 2020 | For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

The territory’s Household and Business Battery Scheme has an initial budget for $800,000 or 130 batteries.

What the energy world needs now is data data data: ISF

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 26, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Researchers and business owners eager to cut energy waste are flummoxed by a paucity of decent data, writes Joe Wyndham. Without it, what hope is there for fixing the world’s problems?

Auditors’ top five beefs with Victorian residential solar

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 24, 2020 | For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The audit program overseeing Victoria’s Solar Homes program has highlighted five main defects installers can easily get right.

Connector confusion highlights solar industry grey areas

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 23, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Residential, Solar | 0 |

The introduction of the MC4-EVO-2 connector has created some uncertainty in the industry. James Patterson clears up the confusion.

Financial impacts of voltage control inverter response modes

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 22, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The effects of voltage irregularities are more sorely felt by owners of PV systems the farther they are along a line, writes GSES.

JinkoSolar field test demonstrates gains for bifacial modules

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 16, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Since 2018 Jinkosolar has been running a comparative test of its bifacial module and monofacial PV technology on a variety of mounting types and ground types.

NSW kickstarts community solar and storage with $15m in grant funding

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 13, 2020 | Australia, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The NSW Government is backing community solar and storage projects with $15 million in funding.

Payback calculator clears the air for PV investment

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 10, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A company that helps homeowners source quotes from trusted PV installers has developed a tool that predicts a year’s bill impact.

Sonnen and South Australia offer free batteries to bushfire victims

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | For Installers, Funding, Policy, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Marshall Government will offer the 188 families who have lost their homes to bushfires across the state a free battery to incorporate into the rebuild.

Turning on the Top End … a solar installer’s journey, from Eire to here

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The tropical Northern Territory is dotted with diesel generators, and NC Electrical & Air Conditioning managing director Neill Carberry tells EcoGeneration he’s busy swapping them out for solar.

Circular solution to PV’s impending crisis

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar | 0 |

It’s time to think ahead about recycling PV panels, writes Emily Gentilini of Arup. Manufacturers, policymakers, investors and consumers must all take part in finding a solution.