Solar Citizens

SOLAR CITIZENS

Solar Citizens is an independent, community-based organisation bringing together millions of solar owners and supporters to grow and protect solar in Australia.

Together, we take action to protect the rights of millions of Australians with solar to cut bills, create clean power and take energy generation back into our own hands.

 

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Going Solar?

Thinking of going solar? Here’s what you need to know to get started.

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1.8 million Australian households have joined the rooftop revolution, cutting their bills and creating clean power.

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Australia could do better. Find out what’s holding us back from a sun-powered future.

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Solar Citizens is a people powered movement standing up for the rights of solar owners and sensible clean energy policies. See how we’re winning.

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Latest Campaigns

Clean, Cheap Energy for All
Help all households access the benefits of clean, cheap power. The big energy corporations are making a mint as our household power bills continue to spiral out of control. Across the country, everyday Australians have cottoned on to the fact that the only guaranteed way to take back control of rising power bills is to invest in...
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Sign the petition for a fair price for solar
Right now, when rooftop solar owners sell their excess power back to the grid they receive around 11c/kWh. But the retail companies on-sell this same electricity to a neighbour for up to 32c/kWh (or 48c/kWh in South Australia!) that’s nearly three times the amount solar households get back. It’s daylight robbery. Big retailers, who also own the...
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Written by Solar Citizens volunteer Peter Youll. If you have a smart meter in NSW and are on a standard, flat electricity rate, it might be time to look at changing to...

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The storage revolution is here! And it’s coming to homes across Australia. Home battery storage is looking better than ever - in fact, nearly 21,000 Australian households installed a solar battery in 2017. Both...

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I’m Pauline and I volunteer for Solar Citizens. After the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) proposed to cut the benchmark solar feed-in tariff (FiT) in NSW from 11.9-15c/kWh to 7.5c/kWh, the...

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Save the Small-Scale Solar Scheme
Clean, Cheap Energy for All
A Fair Price for Solar
A Plan to Repower Australia
Tell Your Solar Story
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