Media Releases
Solar Sharer smart start - now we need Solar for Renters
November 04, 2025
Solar Citizens welcomes the Albanese Government’s new Solar Sharer initiative as a great start to making clean energy more equitable — helping renters and apartment residents access the cost of living benefits of rooftop...
Read More ShareQld Energy Plan a roadmap to costly, polluting, unreliable future
October 10, 2025
Queensland Energy Minister and Treasurer David Janetzki has seriously let down Queenslanders and betrayed the state’s reputation as a global leader in rooftop solar, with an Energy Roadmap that won’t take Queenslanders to a...
Read More ShareNew climate target needs fair, fast solutions to deliver for people
September 19, 2025
Australia’s updated 2035 climate target of 62-70% represents another step forward on paper but Solar Citizens says that the real challenge now is implementation. “Targets don’t cut carbon – action does,” said Heidi Lee...
Read More ShareElectricity Market Review must prioritise consumers
September 17, 2025
In the plan for how renewable energy will replace outdated and failing coal-fired power plants, Solar Citizens urges the National Electricity Market (NEM) Review Panel [1] to ensure that households and small businesses will...
Read More ShareSolar + storage and efficiency is key to climate safety - stop burning coal
September 16, 2025
Replacing burning fossil fuels for electricity, and building more energy efficient homes and retrofitting existing homes, are both crucial to helping Australians reduce future climate change and adapt to growing climate change impacts, says...
Read More ShareNational Construction Code freeze would be a backward step for productivity
August 20, 2025
As the government’s Economic Reform Roundtable continues today with Housing Productivity high on the agenda, Solar Citizens warns against freezing the next installment of the National Construction Code (NCC). It would risk locking out...
Read More ShareBan gas and get rooftop solar + battery storage onto large urban roofs
July 08, 2025
Ensuring all new homes in NSW are fully electric and accelerating rooftop solar and battery storage on large commercial and industrial rooftops are the most effective ways to address rising greenhouse gas emissions within...
Read More ShareWedding of Rooftop Solar Power with Battery storage
June 30, 2025
Solar Citizens is proud to announce the much awaited wedding of Ms Solar Panel with Mr Battery. The ceremony was held to celebrate the 1 July launch of the game-changing federal home battery rebate...
Read More ShareNSW plan to meet Net Zero targets
June 26, 2025
Solar Citizens welcomes the recent announcement by Climate Change and Energy Minister Penny Sharpe that the NSW Government plans to take urgent action to get NSW on track to meeting its legislated emissions reduction...
Read More ShareCity of Sydney gas ban will save household energy bills and cut emissions
June 25, 2025
Solar Citizens welcomes City of Sydney council's decision that all new residential buildings must be all-electric with no gas appliances from the start of next year, as well as plans to introduce similar policies...
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