Brisbane Home Solar Power System
The Property This family home is a five-bedroom home with a pool and an automatic garage along with fridges, freezers and air-conditioners. It uses approximately 40 kilowatt hours of electricity per day with one parent at home with children much of the day. As a result of a location in a flood prone region, the […]
Government Incentives for Solar Panel Installations
Solar System Finance Options
What are the common structures for financing a solar system? In the ever-growing confusion surrounding solar system payment options it may be surprising that an outright purchase of a solar system may not reflect the highest yielding returns for tax-paying businesses. We try to unpack the various methods of funding a purchase and analyse the […]
Solar in Industrial or Rural Settings
Is there really any difference between installing a solar system on a building in urban areas to industrial or rural settings? We at Spinifex Energy believe so, and offer the following three themes that should be considered in industrial or rural areas: There is potential for Ammonia Oxide to attack solar panels; Accelerated soiling and […]
Accurately Sizing a Solar System
A common question when considering installing a solar or battery storage system is ‘How do we accurately size the most appropriate solar system?’ For us at Spinifex Energy this is a purely an economic question which we answer exploring these three things: The current energy use profile revealing the average daily or annual energy consumption; […]
Panel Level Optimising Explained
As more and more optimisation products enter the market (some of you may have heard of SolarEdge inverters with their own brand of optimiser or Tigo optimisers) I thought it would be a good time to explain when it is advisable to look down the path of including optimisation in your solar system. What problem […]
Brisbane Tenanted Industrial Shed Solar Power System
Solar Feed-in at Risk – Policy Makers
The Problem A recent article in the Australian Financial Review stated that the recent and continual record growth in uptake of rooftop solar systems is adversely affecting the grid power quality and ‘forcing’ policy makers to consider measures to ‘curtail flows of solar power into the grid.’ This is because the grid is allegedly not […]
Will my solar system work during a blackout?
Will my panels keep my lights on? I was asked this week whether or not a solar system would allow my customer to be completely independent of the grid if their PV system would generate enough electricity for their consumption needs. A good question, and one that can be answered with a ‘No, but…’ Power […]
AEMO: Cheapest way to replace coal is solar, wind, storage
AEMO: Cheapest way to replace coal is solar, wind, storage
