Tesla VPP VS Amber: Which Suits Your Battery?
Tesla VPP vs Amber: same battery, same grid, two very different deals. One caps your risk and clips your earnings. The other hooks you up to the full market, meaning more potential savings but more exposure to losses.
Tesla is currently testing a new energy plan called…
Top 6 Ways to Lower Your Electricity Bill
You can lower your electricity bill without buying solar panels, without buying a battery, and in some cases without using less power at all.
We install solar and batteries for a living, so you would expect us to say solar is the answer to every high bill. For a lot of homes…
Will Solar Rebates Drop in 2027?
If you wait until January, a typical solar and battery install costs you about $1,174 more. The solar panel rebate drops on 1 January 2027. The battery rebate drops on the same day, then drops again on 1 July.
Nothing is being cancelled, the support just shrinks on a p…
How To Safely Shutdown and Restart Your Sigenergy SigenStor Battery System
This is a guide on how to shut down your Sigenergy SigenStor battery. The job is simple once you follow the order. This guide shows you how to shut down and repower a SigenStor, step by step, whether your system has an AC isolator or uses the Sigenergy gateway.
The whole job…
Australia to Set New Rules for Solar, Batteries and Inverters
Right now, an inverter approved in one state can be a problem in the next one over. Same product. Different rulebook. Different paperwork.
That’s being replaced with one national set of rules.
In September 2026, Australia’s energy ministers endorsed the Consumer Energy Na…
NSW Leads Push for Mandatory Solar Panel Recycling
NSW is moving on mandatory solar panel recycling. On 21 September 2026 the Government released a draft regulation that would make panel brand owners pay to collect and recycle their own products.
Not homeowners. The companies that sell the panels.
It is a proposal f…
How a Moss Vale Homeowner Went Fully Self-Sufficient with Solar and Battery
Harry Coomans’s Moss Vale home makes more power than it uses. He’s self sufficient, sitting in credit, and charging an electric car for next to nothing on a system that grew with his home. This is one homeowner’s honest Moss Vale solar review, and a look at what a solar and bat…
Can a CEC-Approved Battery Lose Approval After Installation?
On 15 September 2026, seven battery models lost their spot on the approved products list. A CEC approved battery is not approved for life. The listing is a live status. It can be suspended, and it can be pulled.
If your battery was installed before the suspension date, you a…
Solar for Renters: Are Plug-In Systems the Answer?
Solar for renters has sat in the too-hard basket for years. No roof of your own. No say over what goes on it. No simple way to cut a bill that keeps climbing.
That is starting to shift. Every state and territory has now agreed to work with the Commonwealth to make plug-in so…
Why did Andrew go solar in Mittagong?
Two things pushed him. Rising bills, and a nudge from home.
Power prices had been climbing, and Andrew wanted to take some of the sting out. Cutting his emissions mattered too. “Helping the environment a bit,” as he put it, with his daughter “in my ear about that.” Both reas…
Why Is My Winter Electricity Bill So High in Southern NSW and the ACT?
In Southern NSW and the ACT the winter electricity bill climbs because we use more power at the worst possible time. Heaters work harder. Hot water runs longer. The sun clocks off early and most usage lands in the evening, the most expensive time of day to be pulling from the g…
Will Data Centres Make Your Power Bill Go Up?
Australia’s data centres are about to use nearly seven times more electricity than they do today, going from around 5 TWh a year to 34 TWh by 2035–36. So will data centres push up your power bill? They might, and it’s being decided right now in rooms you’re not in. A roof full…