Latest market data from analysts shows that Huawei shipped the most inverters last year, followed by Sungrow, while SMA, Huawei and SolarEdge pulled in the most revenue worldwide.

Nearly three years ago, the Australian Energy Regulator warned that the failure of key market players and arbiters to adapt to the impending, and unstoppable, energy market revolution would have disastrous consequences – disastrous, that is, for consumers.

A shopping centre in Northam, Western Australia, has become the latest in the country to install a solar car park, with the 665kW facility unveiled this week as part of a major overhaul of the Northam Boulevard Shopping Centre, that will generated nearly half of the centre’s energy needs.

The record low prices for renewable energy continue to fall both in Australia and overseas.