If you are installing solar you should be aware the second draft of the new battery standard (DR AS/NZS 5139:2019) has been made public. A nine-week public comment period closed on April 3 and we are waiting on the final document to be released.

Victoria’s Essential Services Commission (ESC) has set new rates for solar feed-in tariffs from July 2019. The single rate will be boosted, shoulder/off-peak time-varying rates will be increased and the peak rate slashed.

New South Wales Labor says it will aim for at least a 50 per cent share of renewables in the state’s electricity consumption by 2030, and will source the equivalent of all the state government electricity needs from renewables by 2025.

A new report has emphasised just how much rooftop and large-scale solar are delaying and shaving peak demand on the Australian grid, and how much coal-fired power generation continues to let the side down – just when it’s needed the most.