SunSPOT solar potential tool

13/02/2025

Thinking about solar and batteries for your home?

Join us for a free webinar on Feb 18 at 12 PM as part of the National Sustainability Festival 2025! Learn how solar and batteries work and how they can save your home or business money.

Register Now:

Get Tickets on Humanitix - Webinar - How much can you save with solar?. Online. Tuesday 18th February 2025. Find event information.

28/06/2024

Occasionally SunSPOT users find that the calculations are very slow, or they fail. If you've found this, try these 4 options.

If SunSPOT is failing to calculate, or giving strange results, please check these 4 things

17/05/2024

SunSPOT's Ellie Kallmier and Paolo Gonzalez will be showing people how to use SunSPOT at the SunSPOT stand at the Northern Beaches Net Zero event on Sunday 2 June!

10/05/2024

The SunSPOT team will be at the Northern Beaches Net Zero Expo on June 2 - come along and ask Ellie and Paolo to help you with your solar and battery estimates.

Find them at Narrabeen’s Tramshed Arts
and Community Centre and Berry
Reserve, Narrabeen, Sydney NSW,
on Sunday 2nd June.

Book your free tickets now!
Northern Beaches Council

Get tickets on Humanitix - Northern Beaches Net Zero Expo 2024. Tramshed Arts and Community Centre / Berry Reserve, 1395A Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen NSW 2101, Australia. Sunday 2nd June 2024. Find event information.

19/04/2024

There's potential for 4 times the number of solar panels currently installed on roofs in Australia.

That means Australians are missing out on $9.3 billion per year in potential electricity cost savings, and many of them are living in apartments, social housing, and private rental houses.

See more in this report from APVI - Australian PV Institute and UNSW School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering and Solar Citizens.

Rooftop solar can deliver $9.3 billion in cost savings for people living in apartments or houses.

19/04/2024

APVI, UNSW and Solar Citizens have released a new report finding that Australia has only tapped 1/4 of the solar PV potential of Australian household rooftops!
Read more here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/04/Untapped-solar-rooftop-potential-costing-Australian-billions-each-year-new-report-finds #:~:text=The%20study%2C%20commissioned%20by%20Solar,over%20the%20next%2020%20years.

25/03/2024

Automatic integration of your current electricity usage data and pricing plans is coming to SunSPOT!

This means, simpler, faster and more accurate solar and battery estimates!

SunSPOT is about to become an accredited service provider under the Consumer Data Right. This means your electricity data can been safely shared by your electricity network operator with SunSPOT.

27/02/2024

We are very pleased to announces that SunSPOT now features in the Government's new Solar Consumer Guide at www.energy.gov.au/solar
https://www.sunspot.org.au/blog/find-sunspot-in-the-governments-new-solar-consumer-guide

To help more Australians reap the benefits from solar, the Australian Government has published the free Solar Consumer Guide - and SunSPOT is in it!

27/02/2024

Big news! The Australian Government has published its new Solar Consumer Guide and it features SunSPOT!
APVI - Australian PV Institute

To help more Australians reap the benefits from solar, the Australian Government has published the free Solar Consumer Guide - and SunSPOT is in it!

26/02/2024

“When used with SunSPOT’s calculator, consumers can have the confidence to know they are receiving trusted information, not relying solely on salespeople for advice.”

Assistant Energy Minister Jenny McAllister.
https://michaelwest.com.au/consumer-guide-aims-to-spark-even-more-rooftop-solar/

Australia may be leading the world on rooftop solar but the federal government wants even more squeezed out of the country’s abundant sunshine. An online solar energy guide released on Saturday aims to give households and small businesses more bang for their buck when making one-off rooftop solar ...

26/02/2024

SunSPOT now features in a the newly launched Solar Consumer Guide. A free guide from the Australian Government to help Australians buy and install solar.

The Australian Government has launched the Solar Consumer Guide to help households and businesses get the most out of rooftop solar and batteries. It’s a free, government-backed online guide about rooftop solar for Australian consumers, including households and small businesses. It aims to help co...

16/02/2024

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