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Electricity

high voltage power lines sketch

2 February 2012
Category:  Government,  Electricity, 

Soaring peak demand has caught our electricity networks unprepared, leading to dramatic price increases over the past few years.

11 January 2012
Category:  Solar Systems,  Government,  Electricity, 

South Australia's fire services have moved to correct a growing assumption about house fires at properties where solar power is installed.

black and white sketch of toaster

3 January 2012
Category:  Electricity,  Appliances, 

If you wish to run a toaster on a solar system, you may want to look around for a low power one to keep your inverter size as low as possible.

18 October 2011
Category:  Solar Systems,  Electricity, 

Due to rising electricity prices and the current lack of a regulated feed-in tariff (in NSW), we are getting a lot of inquiries to 'get off the grid'.

5 October 2011
Category:  Incentives,  Electricity, 

In NSW, customers who have missed out on the earlier Solar Bonus Scheme will be best using a net meter.

30 March 2011
Category:  Government,  Electricity, 

SOARING NSW power bills are partly due to flawed government regulation that encourages massive over-investment in towers and wires and pays inflated returns to state-owned electricity transmission and distribution companies, a report has found.

27 July 2010
Category:  Electricity,  Appliances, 

In the production of LED Screens harmful chemicals like lead and mercury and other VOCs are left out of the process.

A chemical used to make LCD televisions and semiconductors could cause more global warming than coal-fired power plants.

8 July 2010
Category:  Electricity, 

Today, EnergyAustralia announced electricity prices are to rise by 10% within this year .


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  map of northern NSW and Southern QLD, Australia

We install solar systems in Northern NSW and Southern QLD.


QLD:
Gold Coast (from Coolangatta to Southport), Nerang and Hinterland (Beaudesert) and out West (Warwick, Stanthorpe, Killarney)


NSW:
Northern NSW (Tweed Heads to Yamba, including Evans Head, Byron Bay and Ballina); the Far North Coast Hinterland (Grafton via Lismore to Murwillumbah) and out West (Casino to Tenterfield, including Drake and Tabulam, as well as Woodenbong and Bonalbo)

For larger system we also go up to Brisbane or down to Coffs Harbour and even Glen Innes. Other places by arrangement.