The owners of NSW’s heritage-listed properties will no longer require formal approval to install solar panels under reforms that will make it easier to upgrade aging property, without the permission of the Heritage Council of NSW. Owners will not require approval to install energy-saving and […]

The look of future communities and roadhouses - cutting the use of millions of gallons of expensive polluting diesel in remote locations? '“By integrating solar, battery storage and intelligent controls, we’ve created a microgrid that doesn’t just reduce costs, it brings energy independence […]

Tindo launches $1,000 ‘Worry Free’ warranty Australia’s only manufacturer of solar panels will pay $1,000 (USD 650) to the owner of a Tindo panel for a valid warranty claim that requires a replacement The first of its kind in the Australian solar PV market, the $1,000 Premium Warranty Offer is […]

Something odd I've noticed. PV system has a "generation meter" that is situated between the AC isolator and the grid. It's an OB112 that the Inverter (FOX ESS KH) talks to over Modbus. Presently, it's dark out (no PV) and the battery is fully discharged (down to the min SoC). The meter is […]

The fact we’re now offering free electricity for 3 hours a day in Australia, shows just how far renewables have come. We’ve gone from managing scarcity to managing abundance. ☀️⚡Energy isn’t the problem anymore — storage & timing are. The future grid is solar-soaked. #Renewables #EV #BESS #Solar

Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/03/australians-to-get-at-least-three-hours-a-day-of-free-solar-power-even-if-they-dont-have-solar-panels Good to see the ALP making a step […]

Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/03/australians-to-get-at-least-three-hours-a-day-of-free-solar-power-even-if-they-dont-have-solar-panels Clever. Congrats to Labor. I […]

When war destroys critical infrastructure, the simplest daily task — turning on a light or boiling water — becomes a challenge of survival. Hope for Ukraine’s Solar Energy Resilience Program is delivering a lifeline to families living through continuous blackouts, shelling, and displacement. By […]

Australian Renewables beat coal again The share of renewables was 50.4 per cent, and beat coal (46.4 per cent) for the second month in a row For utility PV, the best performing assets were the Merredin solar farm (38.3% CF) in Western Australia, and the Greenough River (35.4% CF), both in […]

Batteries at scale are changing a lot of assumptions. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/silos-for-sunshine-weve-mastered-harvesting-the-sun-but-storage-is-the-gamechanger/ #batteries #bess #renewables #energy #energytransition

Masdar invited the media out to Abu Dhabi for the official groundbreaking for their new 24/7 solar and battery energy production system: ‘It aims to realize the full potential of an integrated solar and battery system, demonstrating the capability to not only produce and store power but to […]

Shocker: Canavan's claim ignores the data Wind, solar smashing grid market-share records Fossil fuel generation falls to new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol... Burning more fossils only increases VW electricity price, while renewables bring lower electricity price linkedin.com/posts/raywil...

As per the FT, besides the developed rich countries, many countries in Africa and the Middle East, and even in petrostates such as Saudi Arabia, are rapidly developing solar power, despite the ravings of Trump and his fossilized sycophants against renewables; USA vs the rest of the world now […]

Recycling the Future: PV Industries Launches New Solar Recycling Facility in Sydney A big day for Australia’s circular energy economy! PV Industries officially launched their state-of-the-art solar recycling facility in Bankstown, Sydney today - an […] [Original post on solarcene.community]

SolarCloud is here! If you always wanted #Solar panels but couldn't afford them or didn't have a roof to put them on, no worries, you can use SolarCloud. Customers can buy one or more panels, starting at $139 each, and monitor generation 24/7 via SolarCloud’s […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

European households pay triple for energy compared to China, with an average cost of 0.27 euros per kilowatt-hour A new report says that the European Union could increase its installed solar capacity tenfold if it fully exploits the rooftops of homes, industries, and public buildings. This […]

In the US the average residential solar installation costs $28,000. In Australia it costs $4,000; in Germany it costs $10,000. There’s nothing standing in America’s way of making solar this cheap—except unnecessary red tape. #usa #america #solar #energy […]

Excellent Point! #climatechange #renewables

Here comes the Sun! ☀️ After a 6-month guest appearance in the exhibition “What the Quantum?!” in the Göttingen science museum @forumwissengoe , our model of the Sun is back home. Thanks for safely transporting the Sun through Göttingen. And many thanks […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

* France's last nuclear reactor attempt (Flamanville) started in 2007 and still is not completed (from 5 to now 18 years and counting) for just 1.65GW of generation capacity, and costs have blownout ~4 times (€3.3 billion to an estimated €13.2 billion) * in less than 1 year France has also […]

Cameroon, Zambia electrify villages with solar Cameroon and Zambia are implementing government programs that bring solar minigrids to communities without stable electricity access. Cameroon recently switched on two solar installations to power two villages, while Zambia inaugurated four solar […]

Here’s how renters can take advantage of the solar battery boom (Might be paywalled, but just turn off java to access it) https://www.smh.com.au/technology/here-s-how-renters-can-take-advantage-of-the-solar-battery-boom-20251017-p5n3au.html #solar #energy #renting

[Politics, Law] California sues Trump administration over ‘Solar for All’ program cancellation https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-16/california-sues-trump-administration-over-solar-program-cancellation #solar #climateemergency #politics

Rooftop solar commands price premium in property markets Australian homes equipped with solar systems are commanding a price premium with new data showing they are valued at up to $31,350 more than similar properties without PV installations when it comes time to sell. #solar #energy […]

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy #energy #wind #solar #wired #renewables https://www.wired.com/story/as-coal-fades-australia-looks-to-realize-dream-of-100-renewable-energy/

The share of renewables hit a new peak of 79.8% on Saturday, courtesy of strong winds affecting southern Australia + new found ability of some big coal units to dial down their output significantly. The peak was reached mostly with rooftop solar, which more large scale wind and solar curtailed […]

Reflect Orbital (RO) https://www.reflectorbital.com/ wants customers to pay them to reflect beams of sunlight down from orbit. This is called “sunlight as a service.” Their initial plan is for each beam to be several times as bright as the full moon and at least 5 km in diameter on the ground. […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

This article by two astronomers details many of the points I just talked about and more, and just came out in The Conversation Australia, perfect timing: https://theconversation.com/a-us-startup-plans-to-deliver-sunlight-on-demand-after-dark-can-it-work-and-would-we-want-it-to-264323

Indeed, we did see GP1 bottom out at 100W, indicating the rack was drawing no load. So we paid for a few hours of electricity, but during the day it pretty much disappeared as a load. The batteries clearly work, so I might try removing the […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]

Just finished helping lug 5 120W panels off the roof, and 3 350W solar panels onto the roof. The 120W panels are stacked up ready for me to get out into some bright sunshine with a multimeter and a current shunt to test to see how well they're working. Two different lots: two slightly larger […]

Today’s experiment in #solarcooking: Linzer torte — actually, poundcake. Making it as a poundcake is about 90% of the flavor for 20% or less of the work, and I’m lazy 😎 Recipe is pretty much out of Joy of Cooking, with a couple of tweaks: I put in about 2/3 the sugar or less, and I add a bit of […]

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/7/2025 Regulators know PG&E, Edison are slow to hook up #solar. Why are there no penalties? https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/10/rooftop-solar-hookups-miss-deadlines/ #california #renewables #utilities #energy

BBC: Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po #climateemergency #Climate

A new communication standard is a smarter way to manage solar exports so households can export more power, more often, without overloading local networks. The Australian Common Smart Inverter Profile is a set of rules for how inverters and other devices communicate with the grid operator […]

Australia’s rooftop solar market has climbed by more than 16% in the past month with the latest data revealing that 237 MW of small-scale rooftop PV capacity was installed last month as consumers increasingly turned to solar-plus-storage solutions. 639 MWh of small-scale battery energy storage […]

Rooftop solar could generate 30 TWh of electricity in Norway A Norwegian research team has published Norway’s first full solar map, which calculates that deploying solar cells on top of existing roofs could generate up to 20% of the country’s current electricity needs. #energy #solar #norway […]

Citizen: "Hi, I'm an ordinary citizen who believes in reducing their carbon footprint. That's why I recently went vegan. I've installed solar panels, an inverter, and batteries, and have switched to a green energy provider for my grid power. I now also drive an EV. They may be small […]

Republicans in Wisconsin (who control the state house via gerrymandering) are considering a community solar bill that would mirror efforts in other states to let communities build their own PV systems. Why? Cuz solar is so damn cheap. #solar #wisconsin#solar[…]

It's cool that our local star has a mastodon account. @The_Sun

I'm still flabbergasted I found a competent professional rooftop PV engineer who is troubleshooting and fixing my system. It took a year+ to find him and I will treat him like gold. Our here in a literal and metaphorical island in the middle of the Pacific, if you find someone willing to fix […]

‘The Victoria state government has announced big discounts – up to $34,300 – on the cost of rooftop solar systems for commercial and industrial businesses, as well as community organsations.’ Nice work. #renewables #auspol #solar #energy @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social

Ok (hopefully) last interview of the week done for a small province-wide radio station that I think someone here recommended to me. Thanks, fediverse! One last shot at getting the word out to farmers who might find Starlink debris in their fields. Next week, I'll shift my focus to teaching lots […]

The NEM has so much institutional solar and wind curtailed that it effectively has been running on 100%+ renewable energy during midday peak. That is of course if coal could actually be turned off. #renewables #nem #wind #solar

Slovenia plans 140 MW floating solar plant Slovenian energy company HSE is developing a 140 MW floating solar project, with work currently underway on spatial planning activities. The solar plant is set to become Slovenia’s largest solar project and Europe’s largest floating solar plant […]

One week on the new LiFePO₄ batteries… we're now considering upgrading the solar panels. At the moment it's 5×120W or 600W peak capacity. If we go for 200W or 350W panels, we can possibly extract a bit more current for a longer period of the day […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]

Africa may be about to see a green energy boom. Countries across the continent imported a record number of solar panels in the past year. "Assuming all the panels imported over the past year were installed, researchers [from energy think tank Ember] estimate 16 countries imported enough to […]

#owgf #solarpunk #solardemocracy https://youtu.be/uAPz172dpQY

Where does this leave the Mad Max plotline? When everyone is zipping around outback Australia in EVs powered by the sun. #solar #solarpunk #australia #owgf

US steel crunch puts solar deployment plans at risk With US domestic steel mills booked solid through 2025, a sudden doubling of tariffs on imported steel has created a critical bottleneck for American industries. The move, which hits hard Indian specialized flat-rolled and structural steel […]