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 time-of-use rates....

Written by Abby Bower, Solar Citizens intern. 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...

Written by Pauline Tan, Solar Citizens volunteer. 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 Sydney Solar Citizens...

We’re excited to report that Solar Citizens has a new National Director! Joseph Scales has been appointed by the Solar Citizens board as our new National Director and will be starting with us at...

On March 17, South Australians will go to the polls. South Australia leads the world in renewable energy, but South Australians are still being ripped off by big power companies. That’s why the next...

Written by Solar Citizens supporter Kyle Pennell.  Back in 2016, Tesla acquired solar panel installer and manufacturer SolarCity to help it produce a new product, the solar roof. Tesla’s solar roof is made of...

South Australia can show the rest of the nation how to build an energy system that makes people's lives better. But to get there, whichever party is elected at the March 17 state election...

On Sunday western Sydney baked. When I checked my phone at 2pm it was 43 degrees in my area – a heat so intense that my Opal card melted when it was left in...

South Australia is a leader in solar – there are hundreds of thousands of solar homes across the state that are pumping out clean power and slashing electricity bills for both solar owners and...

Five years ago the Port Augusta community stood at the crossroads of Australia’s energy future and they chose to back solar.  Now, with Premier Weatherill and the South Australian Government announcing a solar thermal plant...