GCL Solar Battery Review
The GCL Solar Battery has landed. GCL made their massive announcement at the Solar Expo in Melbourne in March 2016. What caught everyone’s attention was the price. The 5.6kW battery could be supplied and installed for around $4500. That’s thousands less than a Tesla Powerwall. That’s huge! This puppy is going to sell. But should […]
Infinity solar in liquidation – what happens to my warranty?
Infinity Power, previously know as Infinity Solar went into liquidation on 19 February 2016. Another Brisbane Solar company gone bankrupt, bust, insolvent, kaput. A sad day for all the employees of a top Brisbane Solar company. An unfortunate day for Infinity’s past customers who will no doubt be asking: What happens to my solar warranty? […]
Five simple Brisbane Solar company background checks
Shonky Solar businesses are at epidemic levels in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. With the help of glossy websites, sales sharks and phoenix companies (rising from the ashes of their last failed solar company) are becoming experts at masquerading as solar authorities. Here I’ll help you with five simple online background checks you can do […]
Redflow Zcell battery review
Redflow has launched it’s ZCell battery in Australia. With impressively little fanfare, the product that started at the University of Qld in Brisbane, launched on the ASX in the end of March. A month later, at the Australian Solar Council’s ‘Solar Expo’ Redflow was near the top of my to-do list. Unfortunately, I wasn’t the […]
Talking Solar with Mr Bill Shorten
I had an interesting call today. My industry friend Pat from Supply Partners has a grand opening of his new Solar wholesale warehouse in Brisbane tomorrow. “Hey Mark, this is last minute, but we have Bill Shorten coming to our grand opening tomorrow morning. I’m inviting a few people in the industry to come and […]
Sunny Boy Storage Review
SMA are back! The inverter giant SMA is just about to be the third inverter manufacturer to harness the momentum created by the coveted Tesla Powerwall. The Sunny Boy Storage will position itself uniquely as the only battery inverter that will link to the Tesla Powerwall by utilizing your existing solar inverter. It’s a huge […]
The new Tesla PowerWall – Version 2
It’s been a little over 12 months since I first heard of the Tesla Powerwall. It was April 30, 2015. Gee Wiz, Mr. Musk made quite a stir. Without even delivering a single battery to Australia in 2015, Elon captivated us with his vision. Then came the naysayers. We want the battery now! And if we […]
SMA Sunny Boy inverter review
SMA Sunny Boy has a new model string inverter. At last, the world’s most renowned inverter manufacturer is back in the game. The archaic SMA Sunny Boy will be brought into the second half of the ridiculously accelerating solar decade. First – as if to test the market – the 1.5 and 2.5 Sunny Boy is […]
Has Samil Power gone bust?
Samil Power are not answering their phones. The solar industry believes they have closed down – but there is no information that Samil has gone into receivership or administration. So what’s going on? Update, May 2018. Samil power has exited Australia. If the company you originally purchased your solar system off is still […]
Sonnenbatterie review
Recently I heard the news that sonnenBatterie were joining Australia’s emerging Solar storage market, so I contacted Sonnen’s new Australian managing director Chris Parratt to get the scoop. The reason for my interest is that the “sonnenBatterie eco” is an AC coupled battery. This means we can connect it to any solar system – old or new. Enphase has […]
