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• Unemployment is one of the strongest factors driving rooftop solar

  New research shows postcodes with higher rates of unemployed have higher rates of rooftop solar, because it provides energy certainty for those with job uncertainty.

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• Solar Insiders Podcast: Four million and counting – the race to make the PV puzzle pieces fit

  UNSW's Baran Yildiz on how Australia's millions of rooftop solar systems and other consumer energy assets are being integrated into the grid. Plus, a Tesla Powerwall to go with your Bunnings sausage? And other news of the week.

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• Flow Power enters home retail market offering big benefits from small behavioural changes

  Flow Power is branching into the residential market with a "technology integrated" electricity plan – and a mission to "massively step up" how consumers engage with energy.

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• SwitchedOn Podcast: Why the jobless are also turning to solar PV

  New data shows unemployed people are also turning to rooftop solar to have certainty about electricity bills. PV is not just for rich people, says Kaveh Khalilpou from UTS.

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• Solar battery surge expected for plugged-in households seeking to cut costs

  More households expected to investigate solar batteries as a way to save on the cost of power rather than the cost to the environment, major bank says.

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