Solar Citizens warns that the NSW Government’s lack of planning around the transitioning of early solar customers to new metering arrangements could trigger a crisis for 150,000 solar homes across the state.
Consumer Campaigner Reece Turner said the NSW Government had made a dog’s breakfast of managing the move towards metering which aims to push out smart meters and the impending halt to the 60c/kWh solar feed-in price at the end of this year.
The Victorian Government is making it easier for small-scale energy generators, including households with rooftop solar panels, to connect to the electricity grid.
Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources Lily D’Ambrosio introduced the National Electricity (Victoria) Further Amendment Bill 2015, which would switch Victoria to national arrangements for connection and will require electricity distributors to follow tighter time-frames when they get a connection request.
The creator of this roll-deployed solar panel array says it can be manufactured in spools of up to 100kW; and perhaps even more.
Primarily designed for use in off-grid solar power systems, an entire 100kW of solar panels can be rolled out in a matter of minutes using a tow vehicle, and then rolled up again with the aid of a motorised spool.
Australia’s solar revolution has seen many companies fall by the wayside; but Energy Matters continues to power on after a decade of operations.
The Energy Matters business name was registered on January 31, 2006.
During the last decade, a slew of Australian solar firms failed even before the installation warranties those companies provided had expired.