3+ hour, 36+ min ago   (751+ words) Electric cars have notched up their biggest Australian milestone yet. In August, they outsold petrol cars for the first time, taking almost a quarter of all new vehicle sales. For households, that also means more transport energy is shifting from…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1557+ words) We’ve seen a big change in the solar industry recently. With batteries becoming standard, everyone is getting backup. The problem is that poor design and sales misunderstandings are leaving people, especially three-phase customers, with a total oxymoron: unreliable backup power....

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (974+ words) Carefully trickle-charging your EV with surplus solar instead of buying electricity from the grid sounds like the perfect way to charge. But there’s an uncomfortable truth: slow charging can waste considerably more energy than charging at higher power with a…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (563+ words) Last week I was in Officeworks waiting for some printing. Next to me, a woman was buying a laptop, and the Officeworks bloke helping her knew his stuff. Processors, RAM, screen brightness: all of it correct. Then he asked whether…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (748+ words) From today, NSW businesses are able to cut the upfront cost of a new battery by around 20–40%, with the biggest discounts available when new solar is installed alongside it. The battery incentives aren’t new, but with today’s launch, the NSW…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (878+ words) Western Australia’s government-owned Synergy has an unusual position in the electricity market: it owns some of the state’s biggest batteries, as well as generators selling electricity into the same market. New analysis has found its batteries sometimes charging at surprisingly…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (512+ words) Heat pump hot water systems continue to grow in popularity as more Australians look for ways to get off gas. To find out which heat pump installers trust most in 2026, we asked Australian installers a simple question: “Which heat pump…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (622+ words) I first wrote about this back in 2012. Fourteen years later, I’m still writing about it. That should tell you something about how sticky this confusion is. Kilowatts (kW) measure power: the rate at which electricity flows. kilowatt-hours (kWh) measure energy:…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (726+ words) With full EVs accounting for more than one in five cars sold in July 2026, home EV chargers are selling like hot cakes. To find out which chargers the experts trust, we asked our network of installers a simple question: “Which…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (760+ words) My son asked me the other day how he should get to the airport for a 5am flight. Easy, I said. Book a proper taxi with a longstanding local firm. Whatever you do, don’t pre-book an Uber. He looked at me…...