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Solar Insiders - a Renew Economy Podcast — 195 episodes
Will the home battery boom have a bust?
Why recycling used PV panels is not always the best option
Bowen's big bet on the "missing middle"
Panel recycling at the precipice
Why new rules for networks signal a new dawn for consumers
Virtual networks and the real pursuit of energy democracy
The public power company plugging the gaps
Renters and the "right to plug in"
The small company taking giant steps to close the energy gap
Can we make climate action great again?
Community batteries – can networks deliver what it says on the tin?
How storage and knowledge can make energy "pretty much free"
How saving energy can save businesses a fortune
How bushfires sparked a neighbourhood battery blueprint
What's the right way to consult with communities?
How fixing network tariffs could break home battery economics
Zen and the art of battery optimisation
Praise be, it's a pilot!
Energy smarts for home batteries and EVs
Big trouble in the small-scale battery rebate
Riding the home battery wave
Silicon, silver and sliding doors
Would you like electrification with that?
The community that built its own renewable grid
What consumers really want from virtual power plants
The "zero-cost" VPP with big plans for empty rooftops
Start me up
Poles, wires and fences
Looking beyond cheaper home batteries
Can networks be nimble?
The community that built its own renewable grid
Home battery storage with the lot
The energy pilot that pays customers to dial down their solar
Australia's waste panel problem – and how to turn it into a goldmine
How to make the most out of home batteries
Shouting from the rooftops
A Teal take on what voters want – and how to give it to them
Get ready for battery rebates
A roller coaster year in review – and the keys to a smoother 2025
It's a consumer energy revolution! Can retailers go with the flow?
Four million and counting – the race to make the PV puzzle pieces fit
Made in the clean power-generating shade
Look ma, no gas!
Can rooftop PV be a lifetime asset?
Rise of an Australian PV Maverick
Battery boom-time in the land of the diesel-free donga
Reuse, reclaim or recycle?
Controlling household PV and batteries
New dawn for household batteries
How millions of batteries can deliver billions in savings
Redback revival, battery rebates and solar tax
How to get off gas and electrify
Australia loses it on solar
Can Australia make its own solar?
Heat pump demand red hot, batteries just warming up
Solar tariffs slashed again
Can panels, farmers and sheep get along?
The fight for fairer rooftop PV – and cheaper home batteries
SunDrive's hot pursuit of Australian-made PV
The power of putting First Nations first
Making money out of home batteries
Australia’s CPV and low cost storage breakthrough
Confessions of a solar and battery nerd
Volt from the blue
Can Australia become a global solar manufacturer?
Demystifying home electrification
Small town, medium battery – big solar win
Solar recycling vs solar recovery
Solar, batteries and landlords
From coal valley outsider to solar trailblazer
Getting to grips with solar duck curve
Little solar’s very big year
Turn it off, turn it on
The dumb decisions holding back rooftop PV
Is there such a thing as 'peak solar'?
Solar symphonies and eating coal’s lunch
China drought to hit solar, battery supplies
Spring Clean on the Grid
Households now want batteries with their solar
Will angry consumers leave the grid?
Death of a retailer
The solar industry won’t waste this energy crisis
What the election result means for solar industry
The day the Coalition discovered solar panels
Big deals in solar
Why rooftop solar turned out to be a good idea
What we can learn from solar pioneers
The global rooftop boom
New year solar gloom, and SMA’s big inverter plans
Solar switch off now in force in W.A.
Will 2022 be as strong as 2021?
The highs and lows of 2021
5B expands on way to ultra low cost solar
Australia’s sub zero solar state
Three million and counting
Australia aims for $15/MWh solar
Has Andrew Forrest made right call on thin film solar?
Taylor’s solar review, and PV shutdowns
Australia’s breakthrough solar technology
Solar is king, but who gets to control it?
Flexible exports and PV pricing pressures
Why the solar boom is starting to cool down
Covid rocks the boat, again
Why the solar coaster never stops
Solar is cheap, but fossil fuels cashing in while they can
Solar overtakes wind, but what’s up with NSW?
A hat tip to some great Australian solar pioneers
Behind the meter at Smart Energy
Rooftop solar is killing coal
The new controls on solar, EVs and air-con
The good and bad of the solar export tax
Why switching off rooftop solar is a good thing
Solar tariffs slashed, countdown to new inverter deadline
Does the solar industry deserve the "cowboy" label?
Solar’s cracking start to 2021
The biggest solar stories of 2020
How one old hippy survived the Solar Coaster
How the electric Solar Coaster nearly sank in deep water
Another bunch of records for solar and renewables
The day South Australia became 100% solar fuelled
Rooftop PV still booming, and Australia’s biggest solar garden
Battery Day, and South Australia’s solar plunge
Who’s that controlling my rooftop solar?
Solar industry review, chaos fears in S.A.
5B’s solar revolution takes global scale
Solar’s battle with Covid-19 pandemic
Origin’s bet on self-installing plug and play batteries
Todae in admin, tariffs on exports
CSIRO’s new solar, battery and EV forecasts
Why we need to see your solar
How the solar industry is adjusting to Covid world
Longi’s launch, and AEMO’s big solar switch
What drives Australians to install battery storage?
Tindo’s shining light in solar market
Can solar isolate itself from Covid-19 pandemic?
Tesla, IKEA eye Australia solar market
Big trouble for big solar
Bushfires and backlogs - Solar’s New Year
The best and worst from 2019
Rooftop solar: Asset or liability?
Solar changes shape of grid, and brings down prices
When will rooftop solar boom subside?
How to get good quality solar installations
Battery blues as new standards approved
Big little lies on emissions, and the Model 3
Hot solar rebates, and cool solar beer
Solar’s stunning cost fall, and Victoria’s rebate hurdles
What next for Victoria’s solar rebate?
Should Victoria ditch its solar rebate?
Solar wars in Victoria
Killer whales and chasing solar rebates
Victoria’s big solar and storage plan
Has the battery storage market gone flat?
Is Australia now un-investible for big solar?
What is going on in Queensland?
Australia and the art of the stop-start solar policy
Record installations, phantom sales, and the demise of the roof monkey
What is going on in Victoria?
Solar Insiders: The solarisation of South Australia’s grid
Murdoch media’s attack on solar
Sales in the gutter
High and lows, best and worst of 2018
The RCR collapse; and two great new solar initiatives
Elon Musk’s catching mitt, battery storage everywhere
Fair Dinkum, we’re serious about solar power
Lassoing solar cowboys in Victoria
Solar’s big year, and Senec storage
Why are some councils turning off solar?
Sonnen CEO on why Australia is leading market for battery storage
The fallout from Victoria’s solar rebates
The future of solar rebates
Best and fairest in the solar industry
Solar bad, solar good
Highs and lows
Solar boom, or solar clamp-down?
Solar blackout scares, panels overboard
Selling solar in brown coal centre
Rooftop solar hits 7GW
The beauty of solar diverters
Kids, not coal
Solar dawns on conservatives
Crowd funded solar retailer
Shared solar; EV surprise
Tesla’s VPP, and Kelly’s Zeroes
The year of solar and storage
Smart meters, dumb rules
Tindo on the move, and into storage
How China’s pollution crimped Australia’s solar boom
Frydenberg’s rooftop solar fail
All Energy, all aboard solar train
A gigawatt of rooftop PV
Tesla Powerwall delays slows storage market
Rooftop PV’s big milestone
Is your rooftop solar system a fire risk?
What is “crap” solar, and why it matters