Residential | 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?

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.

Brighter than ever: SunWiz looks back at 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 23, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

For solar systems up to 100kW, 2.13GW of capacity was added in 2019 … more than twice the volume of 2017 and three times the 2016 result.

Take it to vertical … the story behind a CEC Solar Awards winner

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 14, 2019 | For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

A cool-looking house in central Sydney makes the most of the often-overlooked elegance of solar modules. Will the fashion catch on?

Trina heads into 2020 with hopes on 166mm wafer, tracking efficiencies and all-in-one project offer

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 13, 2019 | Commercial, For Installers, Residential, Solar | 0 |

Chinese solar firm Trina has launched a 166mm wafer it says will see output of 445-450W for a 72-cell panel compared with 405-410W for a 72-cell panel using a 158.75mm wafer.