Local company Volt is bringing to Australia the world’s first solar tile that can generate the equivalent energy as a standard solar panel, writes Chris Ryan.
The largest solar farm in NSW officially opened on 16 March, 2023, with Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen onsite to cut the ribbon at the New England Solar project.
The reward that solar customers in regional Queensland receive for feeding excess electricity into the grid is set to increase in the next financial year, despite trending downwards in the South East.
You might not realise this when you flick your switch at home, but Australian electricity generators are forever locked in a bidding war. They compete for the right to supply electricity on the spot market. The cheapest bids win and electricity from those generators is supplied, or “dispatched”, to the grid in five-minute intervals.