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The Newest Evolution Of The Famous LG NeON Cell
Today I’m going to gush a bit as I’m talking about solar panels and those that know me…
Queensland’s Massive Power Outage
Today I thought we would talk about the massive power outage that occurred in Queensland last week. The…
Common Faults We Find On Solar Systems
While we get a constant stream of calls for defective solar systems all through the year, we tend…
Council Approvals for Tilt Legs and Solar Panels on Roofs
This has been a thing for some time but as the years have gone on, it’s become clearly…
Evacuated Tube Solar Hot Water & How it Works?
Today we are going to talk about evacuated tubes and how they work. In recent years we have…
Heating, Cooling and Ventilation
It’s Officially Heat Pump Season
The first cover of ice was on the lawn last week, a bit earlier than expected but the…
The Flexibility of Renewable Energy
First, let’s talk about the big stuff; solar farms, wind farms and just the fact Australia and Tasmania…
AEMC and Proposed Solar Tax
Here a couple of weeks ago, the AEMC (or the Australian Energy Market Commission) released a paper proposing…
A Tale of Two Cities
“It was the best of times it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,…
Embodied Energy
This is the term that describes the amount of energy it has taken to manufacture an item. Everything…
The Miracles of Self Consumption
Over the years, you may have continually heard me rabbiting on about how to get the most value…
Dodgy door knockers are back (again)
The dodgy door knockers are back and wow, have we been busy getting unsuspecting clients out of some…
Planes, Trains & Automobiles – Part 2
Last week we talked mostly about electric cars but this week lets delve into the bigger gear available…
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
What does a completely renewable future entail for Tasmanians? Well according to the politicians we are already there…
Solar Safety: Water & Floods
2021 has already taken off with a massive rush with everyone keen to get their solar systems installed…
The Good, the Bad and the downright Ugly of solar panels.
A lot of people won’t know this; DMS Energy have a couple of solar array test centres. The…
Tasmania Declares Itself Powered by 100% Renewable Energy
Guy Barnett announced that we are now officially 100% powered on renewable energy. It’s been a long journey that…
Back to Basics for Energy Efficiency
We seem to always talk about the cool stuff we do in regards to energy efficiency like: LED…
‘Voltage Rise’ and what it means.
Voltage Rise and What Does It Mean? I thought today we would talk about voltage rise and voltage…