The recent autumn storm blasted winds and cold weather throughout New Zealand, ripping between both Islands, leaving many homes and families without electricity for days, many without power for weeks. A record-breaking summer swiftly blown away.
Many a council’s response to the power outages brought on from the storm was dire, but it caught us all off guard and there is a limit to the blame that can be laid on councils and on the Government's table. The argument(...)
SEANZ, the Sustainable Electricity Association New Zealand are the industry association for solar power, battery storage, and related technologies. SEANZ form the new energy era for manufacturers, wholesalers, suppliers, installers, engaged electricity retailers/ lines companies who understand the solar model as well as some every day solar and battery users.
They play the vital role in ensuring government and their agencies are working in the right direction for the solar power(...)
WePower is just one in a growing number of energy platforms utilising blockchain technology. Power Ledger is one of the more well-known companies that have entered the cryptocurrency space, achieving large investments and hype with the peer-to-peer trading platform. The different approach that WePower is taking enables green energy producers to raise capital by selling(...)
Car manufacturer Nissan recently launched Nissan Energy Solar; solar technology that bridges the gap between energy production and storage for solar powered, UK families. The all in one energy solution will significantly reduce carbon emissions for consumers game enough to take on the exciting new technology.
The price of the system comes in at a cool NZ$8000, not that you’ll be seeing the technology here anytime soon, but we think the price tag is pretty reasonable considering(...)
New Zealanders have been getting short-changed when it comes to buy back rates for solar power. For the uninformed, a ‘buy back rate’ is the price paid by electricity retailers for excess solar power being exported to the grid (i.e. a solar power home generates energy but doesn’t use it or store it). Most energy retailers pay per unit; 7 to 8 cents. This is for feeding electricity into the grid, a pretty lousy rate to be honest and salt in the wound when you’re(...)
The idea of peer-to-peer energy trading platform is not new; however, Power Ledger is the one peer-to-peer trading platform that is getting positive recognition worldwide. Power Ledger's unique difference is that it is utilizing blockchain technology for recording transactions, and making the most of the smart contract technology of Ethereum.
Confused? I won’t hold it against you. Over the last few months I have been spent day in and day out as I tried to make sense of this digital(...)
As if changing the motoring, battery and transportation industry wasn't enough, the fine folks at Tesla have just unveiled their latest creation, a small, futuristic house on wheels.
Set to tour across sun drenched Australia, it's a Tesla ménage à trois; the Tesla tiny house is towed along by a Tesla Model X, with a six-panel 2kW solar system on the homes roof which is then connected to a Tesla Powerwall battery, a trifecta of future technologies. To top it off, the house is built(...)
Savvy solar enthusiasts and vaguely interested punters alike may have noticed an influx of solar calculators popping up on websites throughout New Zealand recently. Eager to find out more, I did a little research and came back with some surprising results. Some solar calculator websites offer the public genuine help, while others, not so much. In this article, I explore various solar calculators and attempt to find out how accurate they are, if accurate at all.
Let’s begin;(...)
