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Off-grid, self sufficient

A project in the south of Western Australia demonstrates how solar can provide a reliable energy supply without backup from the grid, and why it is set to spread around the world even faster than many predict. With this project, German battery manufacturer, Tesvolt and Australian EPC Unlimited Energy won the The smarter E award.

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Michael Fuhs

02 Nov 2018

Simon Schandert, CTO at Tesvolt, Marcus Kruckow, Area Manager Australia at Tesvolt, Daniel Hannemann, CEO at Tesvolt, and Torsten Ketelsen, Managing Director at Unlimited Energy Australia received the smarter E award at a ceremony in Munich. | Image: Siegbert Heuser

It is a remote corner of Western Australia. Avocados have been growing here, near the community of Pemberton, on a five hectare plot of land for seven years, and have been harvested for the past three years. The trees need water, the people on the farm use heating in the winter and air conditioning in …

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