It’s near impossible to determine the actual condition of a roof or your solar panels by merely looking at it. Roof repairs and replacements can cost a homeowner an arm and a leg to change.

According to the recently launched first ever Renewable Energy Index, renewables in Australia generate enough energy to power 70 percent of households in the Land Under.

The recently released pilot results in New South Wales indicate that solar panel and battery systems are fast becoming viable resources for regulating the main electricity grid.

A renowned climate scientist Professor Tim Flannery has released a new book that lays emphasis on greater solar panel intake. The book titled ‘Sunlight and Seaweed’, explores several technological breakthroughs in the country’s quest to harness natural resources.

Last month Australian households and businesses installed a total solar capacity of 98MW on their rooftops, making it one of the highest months ever recorded in Australia.

By mid-2017, solar system installations across Australia had increased by 23 percent. Despite this being good news for the renewable industry, the high uptake of rooftop solar has also led to an oversupply of Small-Scale Technology Certificates (STCs).

The latest Climate Council scorecard report on renewable energy dubbed GAME ON: THE AUSTRALIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY RACE HEATS UP gives very interesting statistics that reveal a remarkable increase in support for renewable energy across all Australian states and territories.

He’s a man of many names-staff knew him as Tony Smith while banks and other financial institutions knew him as Tony Agius. To investigators he is nothing but the shadow of someone who resides in Asia, Beijing, or possibly Hong Kong.

SMA recently revealed that its shipment to India amounted to over 1 gigawatt of solar inverters designed for large-scale PV projects. The company equated this to 3.

Mark Bailey, the Minister for Energy, Biofuels and Water Supply recently revealed that Queensland has achieved over 50 per cent of its quest to meet the Government’s 2020 solar target of producing 3,000 megawatts of generation capacity from installed solar panels.

Carl Elkin, a U.S-based engineer and employee at Google started using his free time to tinker with the company’s 3D mapping program in a bid to find out if it could actually identify rooftops that receive adequate sunlight, and consequently make rooftop solar panel installation worthwhile.

The refusal of Australian utilities to recognise the value of local generation – such as rooftop solar and battery storage – means that they are undermining their own business models and effectively accelerating the “death spiral” they fear so much.

The rapidly increasing popularity of residential solar power in Western Australia has made it the ‘biggest power station’ in the state. Research published by Curtain University has shown that the amount of rooftop solar capacity now installed in WA by households and businesses is so large that it is the state’s largest de facto power station.

The Victorian Labor government has recently announced changes in their regulations that will now allow households of the state to obtain rooftop solar systems with minimal up-front costs by leasing deals through solar companies.

Traditional fossil fuel energy companies have held a monopoly on the electricity sector for a long time and would like for the public to see the industry as too complex to comprehend, when the actual fact is, it’s as simple as can be!