Residential | EcoGeneration

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?

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.

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.

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.

R&D pays rich dividends at Sungrow

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 28, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A trip to the inverter-maker’s headquarters shows its ability to adapt to consumer demand for PV solutions big and small.

How an Aussie invention could soon cut 5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions

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

A technological arms race in the 1980s resulted in a world-first solar cell, that today underpins half the world’s solar power.

United Energy trials pole-mounted shared battery storage

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 7, 2020 | Australia, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The solution will make the most of surplus solar that is exported to the grid around midday, when voltage levels can rise on feeder lines where PV is popular with homeowners.