China’s 200+GW Solar Target China has recently announced an increase in its 2020 solar installation target up to more than 200 GW. The country had earlier targeted installing 105 GW worth of solar. However, according to a recent report from PV Info Link, the country reached 165 GW by the end of September and is now thinking […]

Rooftop Solar threat to Australian Utilities The electricity market globally is undergoing a major paradigm change which is perhaps the biggest since Thomas Edison invented the electric bulb. The advent of cheap renewable energy, distributed generation, EVs and storage are leading to huge changes which most of the large electricity utilities are finding difficult to adjust […]

The Australian rooftop solar market has been touted as one of the best success stories globally with more than 20% of Australia’s residences installing a rooftop solar home system. There are almost 2 million rooftop solar systems installed throughout Australia and that number is increasing day by day as solar is much cheaper than grid […]

Large-scale Solar Plants in Australia Australia has been seeing high power prices for a long time due to the oligopoly nature of the power sector. However, the advent of cheap solar energy has started to upend the power market as entrepreneurs set up large solar power plants to compete with the high priced gas and […]

In a few short years, South Australia is rapidly moving towards renewable energy, with hundreds of megawatts of solar energy getting installed rapidly due to falling prices. South Australia already saw solar power becoming the biggest source of power during different times of the week at noon when numerous rooftop solar power systems generated at their full […]

China is home to some of the large solar farms in the world. The total installed solar capacity is 130 GW in China. It is said that this capacity could power all of the UK alone. China is the leading manufacturer of solar panels with more than 60% of the world’s installed solar capacity being […]