As we all know, January is the hottest summer month in South Australia with extreme weather and abundant sunshine at an average temperature of 23°C.

It’s described as an “off-grid home solar system in a box,” and it could be a much safer option for home backup power than a gas generator.

New battery technology could allow Australian homes to generate and store solar-powered energy more cheaply than traditional electricity suppliers by 2018, says report. Australians will be able to use solar panels and batteries to cheaply produce and store electricity within three years, in a “dramatic” development that is expected to revolutionise the nation’s power generation.

The nation’s first utility company to use 100 per cent renewable energy set up shop this week in Adelaide, South Australia. ZEN Energy has emerged from an already existing company in Adelaide, Zen Industries, which is a storage and solar business.

Harvard researchers may have just found the answer to safer battery storage for solar-powered homes, and are unveiling an exciting prototype. As the wind turbine and solar panel market continues to grow and spread throughout the world, the need for power storing batteries to use on cloudy days steadily increases.

The competition was tough between Manilla, Bingara, Tenterfield and Bingara but the first town OFF the energy grid in New England goes to Uralla. The Parliament’s Renewable Energy secretary, Lesley Williams, travelled to Uralla to make the announcement.