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Micro Inverters and AC Solar Panels. The Future of Solar Power?
Micro Inverters and AC Solar Panels. The Future of Solar Power? source http://www.solarquotes.com.au/inverters/micro In the beginning, there were solar panels which produced electricity as Direct Current. The same kind of electricity that you get out of batteries. To make that electricity useful for powering appliances or connecting to the grid, it was converted to Alternating [...]
Knowledge is Power.
What factors do you consider when you’re comparing quotes to install a system? Probably a number of things- electricity savings, system size, total cost, to name a few. But what about inverters? Or more specifically, micro inverters? Truth is, some of the most significant technological innovations in residential solar have been in the field of [...]
Best Systems
Solar Australia — February 2012 Arnold McKinley, from the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at Australian National University, discusses how many of the modules and inverters currently available on the market lack the ‘smarts’ that would make solar systems more efficient. Selecting a string of ten photovoltaic (PV) modules can be frustrating, because differing characteristics [...]
EnergyPak Solar Systems-guaranteed to outperform
EnergyPak are happy to announce that the components for the system of the future are now in stock allowing us to supply and install the highest performing systems with the data to prove it . The most vulnerable part in a solar power system has been the inverter. Our new GreenStar micro inverter systems come with an unrivalled 25 year warranty on every inverter. [...]
Government policy allows power bills to rise more than recommended
Household electricity bills are likely to soar even higher than the 23 per cent recommended yesterday after the state government revealed it did not intend to remove a tariff that accounts for about $95 per bill. The Economic Regulation Authority yesterday recommended removing the Tariff Equalisation Fund that South West residents and businesses pay to [...]
Keep Western Australia’s Electricity Market Diverse: SEA
by Energy Matters The Sustainable Energy Association of Australia (SEA) has continued its call against re-mergers in Western Australia’s energy industry, a possibility flagged by the Barnett government. The SEA has consistently opposed a remerger of Synergy and Verve, stating monopoly operations create barriers to developing a competitive market in Western Australia. “Energy market reforms [...]
Western Power spend to hit $5.8bn
WESTERN Power, the owner of Western Australia’s sprawling electricity network, plans to radically increase capital spending to a record $5.8 billion over the next five years in a move likely to lead to higher tariffs for businesses and households. The state-owned utility said yesterday it wanted approval to spend $1.6bn above its budget allocation to [...]
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s misleading claims
As the carbon tax legislation continues to be debated in Parliament, a story in today’s Canberra Times shows up some of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s misleading claims about renewables. Earlier this week, Mr Abbott is reported to have said there was no way you could have a solar-powered steel mill or a wind-powered manufacturing plant. Unfortunately [...]
CEC Large-Scale Solar Policy Roadmap
Australia has the highest average solar radiation per square meter of any continent in the world yet we are failing to capitalise on the potential benefits of large-scale solar. As we move towards and beyond the 20% by 2020 Renewable Energy Target (RET), large-scale solar technologies will need to play an increasingly important role in [...]
Solar industry celebrates grid parity
The Photovoltaic Association says the drop in cost of producing power from solar panels has made solar power competitive with coal-generated grid power. Solar power generated by photovoltaic cells on Australian rooftops has become so cheap and efficient that they now produce electricity for the same price that is charged by the electricity grid. Australia [...]