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My wife and I built our forever home with Metricon about 3 years ago. Since then we’ve added a daughter and we’re growing into our house nicely. During the build process, we looked at adding solar but decided against it at the time. In the time since becoming homeowners,...
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Sometimes you’ve got to spend money to make money. That old saying couldn’t be more true, than for homeowners considering adding solar panels to their rooftop. After getting a Tesla Model 3 in September, I’ve driven 7,000km in the car and absolutely love it. While the car is amazing...
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Australia’s bushfires are now global news and aside from the immediate impact of the firefronts, there are now serious flow-on consequences as a result of the smoke. Ironically, the smoke is so bad now, that solar installers, like Kdec Electrical and Solar in Albury Wodonga, are now limiting installations...
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The Victorian Government has been providing incentives to home owners to add solar to their homes through the Solar Homes Program. The next release of solar panel rebates goes live at 9am, this Tuesday, the 17th December, 2019. The scheme offers a rebate of $2,225 (paid directly to the...
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We often think about solar as something we install on the roof of our homes, but there’s a massive amount of momentum in the commercial solar industry. When you go to work, the businesses that employees you likely has a power bill, not in the hundreds of dollars per...
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The Block is one of the highest-rating shows on Australian TV (last Sunday they took out top spot with 1.08 million viewers). Tonight the judges gave their assessment of 3 rooms per couple. One of those rooms was the garage. With a week left in this year’s competition, most...
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Renewable energy technology is a massively expanding market in Australia, gaining further momentum through Government subsidies and rebates available to customers and given how important it is to our country’s future, here’s a solar battery storage guide to help you through the options available today. More than 2 million homes and businesses in Australia now have...
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LG Solar has announced today that one of the largest installations of roof-mounted solar panels in the Southern Hemisphere has been successfully completed. The project is located at the Moorebank Logistics Park in Sydney and the roof now features more than 7,500 LG NeON 2 panels on the roof....
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The Albury Waste Management Centre isn’t something I’d normally cover on techAU, but when they pull off an Australian first, it’s worth talking about. Australia’s first solar plant built on a reclaimed landfill site, features 4,000 solar panels that will produce enough energy to power around 400 homes. There’s...
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Kdec Electrical & Solar have just completed one of these best solar installations I’ve seen. This stunningly streamlined solar roof is located on new caravan parking shelter for Westmont Aged Care in Baranduda, VIC (just outside Wodonga). We first brought you news of the roof back in June, but...
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Victoria’s renewable energy plans got a major boost today with the start of commercial operations of a massive new solar farm from Neoen. The company is one of the world’s leading and fastest-growing independent producers of renewable energy. Numerkah is just over 20 minutes down the road from Cobram,...
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In Frauenfeld, Switzerland, logistics firm Rieser + Vetter blanketed the roof of their distribution center with solar panels. This is one of the largest Swiss commercial rooftop PV systems in an effort offset carbon emissions and benefit from remuneration via a feed-in tariff. The photos of the installation are...
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More than 2 million Australian homes and businesses have Solar panels on their roof, but many of them have terrible aesthetics. Often we option up residential and commercial builds to increase the visual appeal of the place and the last thing you want is to detract from that when...
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In an Australian first, custom functionality has been developed by Natural Solar using Sonnen Batteries and will be incorporated alongside solar power into Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA), designed for use by eligible participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This first move into renewable energy for eligible participants...
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Australia’s federal election promises are really starting to heat up with another A$1 Billion promised by Labor to turn our schools into solar farms. As many as 4,000 schools will have the opportunity to apply to the Government for funding to add solar panels to the roof of their...
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America has some issues right now at the federal level with the Government shutdown, but at the state level, they’re still powering along. The tech-forward state of California, has announced a new standard, effective in 2020, will require all new homes to include solar panels. The decision comes from...
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Metricon is Australia’s largest builder, so when they announce a renewable energy partnership, it’s time to pay attention. In a new partnership with Bradford Solar, Australians now have the opportunity to have solar and battery installed with their new home build, dramatically reducing the price you pay for power....
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A new property development in Kurnell (New South Wales) will connect 12 homes via their home battery power storage solutions turning these into a virtual power plant, whereby homes will have the unique ability to share power. This development is the first of its kind in Australia and outside...
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Whatever you think of the Premiere of South Australia, Jay Weatherill, you can’t deny he’s boldly pushing renewables on multiple fronts. The latest initiative today is a new plan to offer more than 10,000 SA home owners the opportunity to take an interest-free loan to purchase solar and batteries...
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Regional New South Wales maybe isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a carpark full of technology, but at Club Mulwala, that’s exactly what’s happening. Each year the club plays host to visitors from around the country as they enjoy water sports, fishing and entertainment on Lake Mulwala....
My wife and I built our forever home with Metricon about 3 years ago. Since then we’ve added a daughter and we’re growing into our house nicely. During the build process, we looked at adding solar but decided against it at the time. In the time since becoming homeowners,...
Sometimes you’ve got to spend money to make money. That old saying couldn’t be more true, than for homeowners considering adding solar panels to their rooftop. After getting a Tesla Model 3 in September, I’ve driven 7,000km in the car and absolutely love it. While the car is amazing...
Australia’s bushfires are now global news and aside from the immediate impact of the firefronts, there are now serious flow-on consequences as a result of the smoke. Ironically, the smoke is so bad now, that solar installers, like Kdec Electrical and Solar in Albury Wodonga, are now limiting installations...
The Victorian Government has been providing incentives to home owners to add solar to their homes through the Solar Homes Program. The next release of solar panel rebates goes live at 9am, this Tuesday, the 17th December, 2019. The scheme offers a rebate of $2,225 (paid directly to the...
We often think about solar as something we install on the roof of our homes, but there’s a massive amount of momentum in the commercial solar industry. When you go to work, the businesses that employees you likely has a power bill, not in the hundreds of dollars per...
The Block is one of the highest-rating shows on Australian TV (last Sunday they took out top spot with 1.08 million viewers). Tonight the judges gave their assessment of 3 rooms per couple. One of those rooms was the garage. With a week left in this year’s competition, most...
Renewable energy technology is a massively expanding market in Australia, gaining further momentum through Government subsidies and rebates available to customers and given how important it is to our country’s future, here’s a solar battery storage guide to help you through the options available today. More than 2 million homes and businesses in Australia now have...
LG Solar has announced today that one of the largest installations of roof-mounted solar panels in the Southern Hemisphere has been successfully completed. The project is located at the Moorebank Logistics Park in Sydney and the roof now features more than 7,500 LG NeON 2 panels on the roof....
The Albury Waste Management Centre isn’t something I’d normally cover on techAU, but when they pull off an Australian first, it’s worth talking about. Australia’s first solar plant built on a reclaimed landfill site, features 4,000 solar panels that will produce enough energy to power around 400 homes. There’s...
Kdec Electrical & Solar have just completed one of these best solar installations I’ve seen. This stunningly streamlined solar roof is located on new caravan parking shelter for Westmont Aged Care in Baranduda, VIC (just outside Wodonga). We first brought you news of the roof back in June, but...
Victoria’s renewable energy plans got a major boost today with the start of commercial operations of a massive new solar farm from Neoen. The company is one of the world’s leading and fastest-growing independent producers of renewable energy. Numerkah is just over 20 minutes down the road from Cobram,...
In Frauenfeld, Switzerland, logistics firm Rieser + Vetter blanketed the roof of their distribution center with solar panels. This is one of the largest Swiss commercial rooftop PV systems in an effort offset carbon emissions and benefit from remuneration via a feed-in tariff. The photos of the installation are...
More than 2 million Australian homes and businesses have Solar panels on their roof, but many of them have terrible aesthetics. Often we option up residential and commercial builds to increase the visual appeal of the place and the last thing you want is to detract from that when...
In an Australian first, custom functionality has been developed by Natural Solar using Sonnen Batteries and will be incorporated alongside solar power into Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA), designed for use by eligible participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This first move into renewable energy for eligible participants...
Australia’s federal election promises are really starting to heat up with another A$1 Billion promised by Labor to turn our schools into solar farms. As many as 4,000 schools will have the opportunity to apply to the Government for funding to add solar panels to the roof of their...
America has some issues right now at the federal level with the Government shutdown, but at the state level, they’re still powering along. The tech-forward state of California, has announced a new standard, effective in 2020, will require all new homes to include solar panels. The decision comes from...
Metricon is Australia’s largest builder, so when they announce a renewable energy partnership, it’s time to pay attention. In a new partnership with Bradford Solar, Australians now have the opportunity to have solar and battery installed with their new home build, dramatically reducing the price you pay for power....
A new property development in Kurnell (New South Wales) will connect 12 homes via their home battery power storage solutions turning these into a virtual power plant, whereby homes will have the unique ability to share power. This development is the first of its kind in Australia and outside...
Whatever you think of the Premiere of South Australia, Jay Weatherill, you can’t deny he’s boldly pushing renewables on multiple fronts. The latest initiative today is a new plan to offer more than 10,000 SA home owners the opportunity to take an interest-free loan to purchase solar and batteries...
Regional New South Wales maybe isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a carpark full of technology, but at Club Mulwala, that’s exactly what’s happening. Each year the club plays host to visitors from around the country as they enjoy water sports, fishing and entertainment on Lake Mulwala....
