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Shellharbour Solar Expo A Huge Success

October 19, 2010 by Darren

I spent most of Sunday helping to staff the Jamberoo FutureCare table at the Shellharbour Solar Expo, at Shellharbour Workers’ Club (who actually have 22 kW of solar panels installed themselves – see photo). The expo was organised by Jamberoo FutureCare, in conjunction with Shellharbour and Kiama Councils. There were a number of solar power … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity, Events, Illawarra Businesses, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations, Science and Technology Tagged: Electricity, government rebates, hot water system, Jamberoo FutureCare, Kiama, Shellharbour, solar hot water, solar panels, solar power, solar power system, solar rebate, wind generators

We Now Have Solar Power!

May 18, 2009 by Darren

OK, our solar power system actually got installed a week ago, but I wanted some photos so I had to wait until the weekend. Anyway, we now have solar power! We got a 1 kW grid-connected solar power system from Earth Utility. Once again (we previously got solar hot water from them), their service was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity Tagged: power inverters, pv, solar grid-connect, solar hot water system, solar panels, solar power, solar rebate

Gross Solar Feed In Tariff Petition For Australia

January 23, 2009 by Darren

The Australian government is waffling on the issue of a nationalised renewable energy feed-in tariff for homes. Recent announcements seem to indicate that they’ll favour a net tariff, which is very much inferior to the gross feed-in tariff the solar industry is calling for. A gross feed-in tariff (where the energy-producing household is paid for … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity Tagged: australian government, Electricity, rebate program, renewable energy, renewable energy sources, solar feed-in tariff, solar rebate, solar systems, wind generators

Solar Power On It’s Way!

December 18, 2008 by Darren

We received an email last night from Earth Utility confirming our order for a 1 kW solar power system. They also phoned today to make sure we were kept informed. I’m really happy with their service so far. **WARNING:** Earth Utility appears to be in trouble (updated 28-04-2010). Now it’s just a matter of waiting … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity Tagged: Australia, carbon emissions, Earth Utility, incentive schemes, micro hydro, renewable energy, solar feed-in tariff, solar grid-connect, solar installations, solar panels, solar power, solar power system, solar rebate

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