Residential | EcoGeneration

The revenue squeeze about to push solar off a cliff

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 24, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A Green Energy Markets report prepared for AEMO predicts forces are aligned against the PV industry.

Save our solar … the narrow road to economic PV recycling

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 21, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Is it worth the bother to keep old solar panels out of landfill? Sure it is, if they can be reborn as something better. Jeremy Chunn looks at possibilities for end-of-life PV.

Remember that you’re a sparky first when it comes to solar standards

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 12, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

While solar is governed by its own set of standards, installers must ensure they comply with all the relevant electrical standards, particularly AS/NZS3000:2018, writes Thomas Seymour.

How to buy a very, very large batch of solar panels

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 11, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Dr Michelle McCann takes a deep(ish) dive into module procurement and quality assurance, from specification through to monitoring on the farm.

Great balls of hail … the invisible PV peril

by EcoGen Editor | May 7, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Destructive weather events always arrive from out of nowhere, and usually the damage is immediately obvious. But that’s not always the case for hailstorms, writes Dr Michelle McCann.

How do PV module performance ratios perform?

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 6, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

The convenience of using performance ratios as benchmarks can put project proponents in a blind spot, writes Michelle McCann.

West Australia’s five-year roadmap lights the way for PV and battery storage

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

The plan will accelerate the integration of distributed energy resources – solar and battery storage – into the South-West Interconnected System.

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?