With the highest penetration of residential rooftop solar in the world, Australia is a testing ground for the role that distributed generators can play on the grid. Despite this fact, energy production incentives for rooftop solar systems are currently minimal or nil, leaving homes to try to maximise their solar … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The head of US-based solar giant SunPower says Australia has the potential to be at the cutting edge of the global shift towards decentralised, or local, energy generation, as solar costs continue to fall and battery storage is deployed to balance supply and demand. Tom Werner, … [continued]
This article originally appeared on RenewEconomy US solar giant SunPower intends to use Australia as a beach-head for developing and perfecting a new “energy services” business model, which it then plans to export to other markets around the world. SunPower will use the Australian renewable-based “gentailer” Diamond Energy as the … [continued]
