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Octopus Energy Now Offering 20 Cents/kWh for Energy from Your Battery

If you are an Octopus Energy customer with a solar battery or plan to install one - here’s some good news for you. Octopus is now offering a never-before rate of 20 cents for every kWh(...)

Posted on in New Zealand Energy News

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Buying a House With an Existing Solar Power System: A Detailed Guide

Buying a House With an Existing Solar Power System: A Detailed Guide

Among the several perks a used home may offer, a pre-installed solar power system is one of the most exciting. Home buyers can expect to save thousands of dollars in electricity bills(...)

Posted on in Solar Power New Zealand

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Tesla Powerwall 3: Less Style But More Substance

Tesla Powerwall 3: Less Style But More Substance

After plenty of speculation and some anticipation, Tesla has finally released details about the third generation of its ultra-popular Powerwall battery. And the first thing we want to do(...)

Posted on in Solar Battery Information

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Why Your Solar Installer Will Probably Oversize Your Array

Why Your Solar Installer Will Probably Oversize Your Array

On first thought, it may seem logical to have a solar array size similar to the inverter size, such as pairing a 6 kW array with a 6 kW inverter. After all, why generate excess power when(...)

Posted on in How Solar Power Works

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Are Sodium Ion Batteries the Next Big Thing?

Are Sodium Ion Batteries the Next Big Thing?

More than 200 years ago, a bright young chemist named Sir Humphry Davy discovered that sodium could be used as material for batteries. But for the next two centuries, sodium ion batteries(...)

Posted on in Battery Storage For Solar

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Tesla Powerwall 2 vs BYD Battery

Tesla Powerwall 2 vs BYD Battery

If you have heard the term ‘solar battery’, you probably know that the Tesla Powerwall 2 is the most popular home battery worldwide. And if you know just a tiny bit more about solar batteries, you probably also know that the BYD solar battery is Tesla’s biggest(...)

Posted on in Battery Storage For Solar

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Are Microinverters Really Better than String Inverters?

Are Microinverters Really Better than String Inverters?

If you go to Google and type ‘string inverters vs. microinverters’, you will get dozens of articles telling you that microinverters are superior to string inverters.

In fact,(...)

Posted on in Solar Technology

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Installing a Home Battery Without Solar Panels – All You Need to Know

Installing a Home Battery Without Solar Panels – All You Need to Know

It is a fact that solar panels and batteries go together, like peanut butter and jam. And while it’s possible to have just one of the two, doing so somehow doesn’t feel right. And(...)

Posted on in Solar Battery Information

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