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South Australia’s Electricity Prices Spark Calls for National Inquiry into Wind & Solar

 

In the 2014 Annual Residential Electricity Price Trends report, electricity prices in South Australia were expected to fall in 2015 and remain flat in 2016/17 thanks to a combination of falling demand, lower wholesale electricity prices and tighter rules on network costs.

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Renewable Energy Now Cheapest New-Build Electricity In Australia

 

Renewable energy is now the cheapest new-build electricity generation in Australia, according to the country’s Clean Energy Council. Speaking on Wednesday, Clean Energy Council Chief Executive Kane Thornton told attendees to the Australian Clean Energy Summit currently being held in Sydney that renewable energy has now become the cheapest form of new-build electricity generation in Australia, “and is now set to accelerate the modernisation and de-carbonisation” of the country’s power supply.

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Tesla Powerwall: What’s the verdict from the family who installed Australia’s first unit?

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Six months on, he has cut his daily power bill by nearly 90 per cent and said his family had become “smarter” with their use of appliances.

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Queensland 30MW solar farm green-lighted by council

 

Another large-scale solar project has been approved for development in Queensland, this time a 30MW PV power plant in the state’s Western Downs region, to be built by Spanish renewables group, FRV.

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Compass Home & Lifestyle – The Next Generation of Home Improvers

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As homeowners realise the potential of home automation and energy efficiency, smart home technology is becoming increasingly relevant to industries like solar and home improvement. Experts are predicting the home automation sector will grow exponentially in the next few years, with a new generation of businesses moving in to compete with traditionally segmented and specialised business models.

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SunSource Group Goes Into Liquidation

 

Brisbane based solar company, SunSource Group Pty Ltd, has gone into liquidation this week. Following some speculation that the company was struggling to stay afloat, SunSource’s insolvency notice was officially released on July 1st 2016.

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‘Tesla Solar’ Wants to Be the Apple Store for Electricity

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Tesla Motors Inc.’s bid to buy the biggest U.S. rooftop solar installer has little to do with selling cars. Rather, it’s about solving two of the biggest problems standing in the way of the next solar boom.

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BMW is getting into home energy storage with used i3 batteries

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<div class="m-ad m-ad__article-body"> Importantly, BMW&#8217;s system will work both with new batteries and also what it calls &#8220;2nd Life Batteries,&#8221; which are used packs from i3s that have outlived their usefulness on the road but still supply enough power to be used in a home.

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5kW solar system price

 

To show the difference in cost between different system capacities, consider the following list, which shows the national average price for Australia at the time of writing (March 2015):