On Step Off the Grid

• “It’s remarkable:” New 470W rooftop solar panel gains CEC approval, wows installers

  CEC approval of the module marks the first in stock in Australia to deliver that sort of power capacity in a standard residential size – and it's not going unnoticed by local industry.

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• Rooftop solar “wilful fraud” investigation leads to conviction, fine and company suspensions

  A man has been fined and four companies suspended from the federal rooftop solar rebate after being caught out working unlicenced and using non-compliant equipment.

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• Solar Insiders Podcast: Rise of an Australian PV Maverick

  5B's chief strategy officer Nicole Kuepper-Russell on the company's journey from concept scribbled on a napkin, to one of Australia's biggest solar manufacturing success stories.

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• “There has to be a better way to do this:” The dawn of an Australian solar Maverick

  In an unassuming factory in an Adelaide industrial precinct, 5B is walking the talk on making solar in Australia. In this case, not cells or modules, but solar Mavericks.

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• Your neighbour’s choice to go solar might have influenced you more than you think

  Research shows around 18% of new solar installs come from the neighbourhood effect. So how does it work – and how can we leverage it?

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