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The myths of solar – winter edition

Solar homeowners dream of warm summer months with longer daylight hours – in Australia, a great time for solar generation and keeping energy costs under control. But what happens during the other half of the year when the sun seems to hide…
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Trade your energy for higher profits in the spot market

Winter tends to have a bad reputation for solar homeowners. For individual households, the additional consumption of electricity from heating combines with the reduced generation of rooftop PV systems due to our shorter days, a situation that…
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Winter Energy-Saving Tips

The lower the temperatures, the more likely we are of seeing our energy bills rise. This is because according to the 2016 Residential Baseline Study by Sustainability Victoria, home heating accounts for 38% of the total amount of energy used…
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Virtual Power Plants explained

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When you join Members Energy, you become an integral part of our Virtual Power Plant, or VPP for short. But what exactly is a VPP? And more importantly you may ask, how do they benefit you? Until recently, Australia has relied on large, centralised…
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Are Virtual Power Plants the future of Australia’s solar energy?

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The Government of WA made headlines recently, when Energy Minister Bill Johnston announced Project Symphony, a Virtual Power Plant initiative that according to him, “will pave the way for Western Australians to access more energy options”. However,…
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What’s the fuss about solar batteries?

Over the last decade, the uptake of rooftop solar PV systems in Australia grew almost 100 times. We have, easily, the world’s largest operating solar capacity per capita - standing at 650 watts per person. This beats out second place Germany,…