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Last Tuesday morning, my neighbour, Mike, pointed at the thick, grey clouds rolling over Mount Wellington. "There's no way those solar panels, in cloudy weather, Kingston conditions, would work on my roof," he said. "Half the time you can't even…

I was chatting with a neighbour over the fence about her solar panels. She'd been thinking about getting them installed for ages, but kept putting it off. "I just don't know if they'll last," she said, gesturing toward the harbour…

I was having coffee with a friend here in Brighton when he asked me something that stopped me in my tracks: "Mark, I've been thinking about getting solar panels, but my mate at work says they actually use more energy…

Last month, I met with a Brighton homeowner who'd been quoted three different solar system sizes from three different installers. One suggested 6.6 kW, another pushed for 10 kW, and the third recommended 13 kW. All for the same house…

Last week, I visited a homeowner in Glenorchy who had been wondering why his electricity bills hadn't dropped as much as expected after installing solar panels eighteen months prior. When we climbed onto his roof, the answer was immediately clear…

Picture owning a rental property in Glenorchy where your tenants practically pay you to live there. That's exactly what happened to Mark, a local property investor who installed solar panels on his three-bedroom rental in Montrose last year. His tenants'…

Last month, I met a Brighton homeowner who showed me two electricity bills side by side. One from January 2024 - $387. Another from January 2025 after installing solar - $68. That's an 82% reduction. The promise of slashing your…

Living on the waterfront in Rose Bay comes with stunning harbour views and sea breezes, but when my neighbour Jim installed solar panels on his cliff-top home last year, he discovered that coastal solar panels in Rose Bay installations face…

I got a call from a frustrated homeowner in Kingston Beach. Her solar system was barely producing half the power she'd been promised, and her installer had gone silent. "I should've known better," she told me. "But who was I…

I was chatting with my neighbour Greg over the fence here in Sorell. He'd been thinking about solar panels for months, but something was holding him back. "I keep hearing all these success stories," he said, "but what about the…