Featured in A safe pair of hands – 08-2014

Billions of opportunities going begging

Off-grid PV Australia: With its wide open spaces and disparate remote and rural communities, there are many communities and commercial operations that can be served by off-grid PV in Australia. However, the growth of PV plus storage solutions has been patchy, with the pastoral sector (farming) relatively quick to adopt the technology while indigenous communities and mining operators lag behind.

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Jonathan Gifford

11 Aug 2014

Arriving at the warehouse and offices of Australian PV developers and engineering providers Solarmatrix in the West Australian capital city of Perth, the red dust of the outback covers equipment stacked neatly by the steel roller doors. Dumus Yildiz and a team of installers and engineers have only just returned from a site in the …

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