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What is new and worth knowing in Australian solar, batteries, EVs and electric living.
South Australia will wind 100,000 rooftop solar systems down to zero on 25 August
On Tuesday 25 August, SA Power Networks runs its annual test of a capability that lets it remotely curtail rooftop solar. About 100,000 systems take part, for under an hour.
Read BatteriesBatteries now set the power price one time in six, the energy regulator says
The Australian Energy Regulator's new market report shows big batteries set the national wholesale power price 16.3 percent of the time in 2025, up from about 1 percent in 2021.
Read PolicyThe solar rebate is about to get ten times bigger, just not for your roof
From 1 October the small scale solar rebate will cover systems up to 1MW instead of 100kW, cutting roughly 20 percent off the cost of mid-sized solar on factories, farms, schools and shopping centres.
Read SolarAldi Solar lands in Perth and Adelaide. Read the fine print first.
Solar and battery packages from $7,499 with the federal rebate already built into the price. The advertised number is not always the final number, and Aldi is not the company doing the work.
Read EV ChargingPerth just got a fast charger that keeps working when the grid does not
A privately funded 250kW charger in Cockburn runs off its own rooftop solar and a 240kWh battery, with the grid connection kept purely as backup. It is reported to be the first of its kind in Australia.
Read BatteriesAustralia's home battery rebate passes 500,000 installations
The federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program has now helped more than half a million households install a battery, with about 2,000 systems going in every working day.
Read BatteriesHome battery rebate about to crack half a million installs, Bowen says
The Cheaper Home Batteries scheme hit 487,000 installed systems by late July and is adding about 2,000 a day, putting it on track to pass half a million in August, more than four years ahead of the original 2030 target.
Read PolicyEnergyAustralia admits breaching the rules on free midday power
EnergyAustralia has admitted it broke the Electricity Retail Code by taking 33 days too long to offer the new Solar Sharer plan, and has signed a court enforceable undertaking with the ACCC.
Read SolarSolar just set winter records in almost every state, and batteries are soaking up the excess
Large scale solar hit record highs in every mainland state but South Australia during July, and curtailment fell sharply as more battery capacity came online to absorb the surplus.
Read CoolingChina's rooftop mist cooling, explained
Videos of water pouring off apartment rooftops in Shanxi Province have gone viral this week. It is not rain and it is not a leak. It is evaporative cooling, the same physics as sweat, deployed at the scale of a whole street.
Read SolarIs balcony solar coming to Australia?
The push is building fast, but true plug-and-play kits are still not legal here. Where it stands, and what you can legally do today.
Read BatteriesHome battery rebate shrinks for big batteries
The federal battery rebate has been reworked. The pool grows, but the discount now tapers hard once a battery goes past 14kWh.
Read V2GAmber's vehicle-to-grid trial triples to 1,000 homes
ARENA has tipped more money into Australia's largest residential V2G trial, and the early earnings data is promising.
Read PolicyPower bills fall for most states from July
New default electricity prices land on 1 July, and most of the country will pay less. One state is the exception.
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