Tag: rooftop

  • Battery installations in Australia up 20%, here’s why

    Battery installations in Australia up 20%, here’s why

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    Last year the number of residential battery systems installed in Australia increased by 20%. The 31,000 battery systems that were installed is a remarkable number, considering Australia entered a recession in September last year for the first time in almost 30 years. This article considers some of the key drivers behind the growing market adoption…

  • Residential solar prices hit record low in 2020, says EnergySage

    Residential solar prices hit record low in 2020, says EnergySage

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    This week online solar shopping comparison company EnergySage released its twelfth semiannual Solar Marketplace Intel Report, which is based on millions of transaction-level data points generated within the EnergySage Solar Marketplace throughout 2020. The company tracks the evolving pricing, equipment, and consumer preference trends shaping today’s U.S. residential solar industry by connecting solar buyers and…

  • California’s rooftop solar program collides with equity concerns

    California’s rooftop solar program collides with equity concerns

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    SACRAMENTO — A pandemic-era backlash from California’s yawning wealth gap is taking aim at the state’s pioneering climate policies. The latest target: incentives such as rooftop solar panels. The generous rewards paid to those who is able to install them onto their roofs amount to subsidies for the wealthy, utilities and other critics of this…

  • Tested: 3 Rooftop Tents Worth Buying

    Tested: 3 Rooftop Tents Worth Buying

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    Since first attempting a rooftop tent three decades ago, I’t become a convert. I sleep on the majority of my car camping trips in one. They give a significant platform, and a few separation from the floor and hungry raccoons (or worse) which will come true for scraps. I’m not the only convert. Rooftop tents…