4+ hour, 23+ min ago  (415+ words) On the eve of 1 May 2026 home battery rebate reductions, April was a bumper month for residential rooftop solar uptake nationwide achieving 435 MW, up 30% month-on-month (Mo M), according to Sun Wiz market insights. The Cheaper Home Batteries Program (CHBP) gear-change tapped the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (516+ words) Approval times for large-scale solar, wind and battery projects in New South Wales (NSW) are amongst the slowest in Australia according to a new report from the Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG). Standalone battery projects are averaging 614 days to progress…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (628+ words) Free power sounds like a giveaway. It isn't. It's meant to encourage people to use more electricity during the hours when solar power flows into the grid. The real aim is to get people to shift the use of water…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (562+ words) Two European AI companies are taking sharply different approaches to automating utility-scale solar operations, diverging on where the boundary between human decision-making and machine execution should sit. As solar portfolios grow through acquisition, the manual inspection, reporting, and fault-response model…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (411+ words) The unit measures 1, 045 mm x 1, 045 mm x 400 mm and weighs 115 kg. It is designed to operate in ambient temperatures ranging from -30 C to 60 C and is certified for installations up to 4, 000 metres above sea level. Featuring up to 300 k W…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (490+ words) Energy Consumers Australia (ECA) research suggests half of Australian households face structural barriers to adopting rooftop solar and battery energy storage, such as living in a rental property, living in an apartment, or financial circumstances. Australia's clean energy transition is…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (324+ words) A team of researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has developed a nanoscale device they say could improve the performance of PV systems by preventing the loss of solar energy before it can be utilised. The team…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (339+ words) As utility-scale solar, wind and battery projects reshape the way electricity is generated and stored, households have quietly delivered a recent victory with the Cheaper Home Batteries Program delivering 10. 7 GWh of storage to the grid. The years that Australia has…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (522+ words) Renewables developer Lightyears announced construction is now underway on the 13. 5 MW Reefton Solar Farm being developed on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island with JA Solar revealing the project also marks the first overseas deployment of its Deep…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (361+ words) The international research group led by Professor Martin Green from the'University of New South Wales'(UNSW) has published'Version 68'of the "Solar Cell Efficiency Tables" in'Joule. Version 68 reports 21 new results. "Two of the most exciting are new records for both large…...