Solargentas

02/11/2026

Battery storage in Tasmania

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Battery storage Tasmania-wide: home battery systems designed and installed by local experts. Cut power bills and blackout risk. Get a free quote today.

31/10/2026

Rebate updates keep landing from Canberra, and Tasmania still has no state battery rebate.

A household here gets the federal ~30% off an installed battery — full support up to 14 kWh, less above that — and no state top-up on top of it. No retailer VPP operates here either, so nobody's paying you for what's sitting in the battery. On the standard Aurora tariff you export at 9.276c and buy back at close to 30c, which means the battery pays through self-consumption and backup rather than export. The exception is wholesale-price exposure — that does exist in Tasmania, and we run our own automated trading on it, charging when spot prices go negative and riding out the evening peaks. Federal support tapers down to 2030.

Our view is a state scheme should be closing that gap, and we're biased — we install them. For anyone who's priced a battery here: did the self-consumption saving or the blackout backup do more of the work in your numbers?

31/10/2026

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30/10/2026

Heat pump + solar: the same hot water for about 3c instead of 29c.

Here's the arithmetic that still stops people. An old resistive element is a one-for-one deal — one unit of electricity in, one unit of heat out — and on tariff 31 that's 28-30c a unit off your bill. A heat pump doesn't make heat, it moves it, so it typically delivers around three units of heat for every unit of electricity. Run it at midday on your own roof rather than exporting that power at 9.276c, and the true cost of a unit of heat lands near 3c.

Roughly a tenth. Same shower.

The catch is timing, and it's where we see the most waste. A lot of the hot water timers we come across are still set to fire at 2am, on the old off-peak habit. On a flat tariff 31 that habit now costs you: the cheapest power a flat-tariff household gets is what's already coming off its own roof between about 10 and 3, and a hot water tank is the easiest battery in the house — no paperwork, no inverter, just a clock change.

What time is your hot water set to heat, and do you know where that timer actually lives?

30/10/2026

Solar batteries in Tasmania

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Solar battery Tasmania solutions from local, accredited installers. See real installed prices, current rebates and savings — request a free quote today.

29/10/2026

This excites SolarGenTas

Powderfinger will bring its reunion tour to Hobart, playing two shows at Cornelian Bay Oval on November 13 and 14, 2027.

The Brisbane rock band added a nine-show Encore Run after its first 26 shows sold out in six days, with more than 300,000 tickets sold.

“When we saw how many people missed out on tickets, we knew we couldn’t leave it there,” frontman Bernard Fanning said.

John Butler Trio, The Preatures and Luca Brasi will support the Sunday show in Hobart.

Tasmanians with interstate tickets can seek refunds. Presales open at 10am on November 4; general tickets go on sale at 11am on November 5 through Ticketmaster.

29/10/2026

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29/10/2026

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29/10/2026

Most solar tips you'll read were written for a feed-in tariff that no longer exists.

The ones that really get us are the "run your appliances overnight on cheap power" ones. Most Tasmanian households are on a flat tariff — tariff 31, roughly 28–30c a unit whatever the hour. On a flat tariff there is no cheap overnight. That advice is lifted from mainland time-of-use plans and repeated here by people who've never read an Aurora bill.

Here's the actual arithmetic. A unit you use yourself saves you 28–30c. The same unit exported pays you 9.276c. Three to one. So the highest-value habit on a Tassie roof isn't panel cleaning or staring at the app — it's timers. Hot water on a daytime run, the dishwasher and washing machine at lunchtime, the EV on the roof instead of the grid, the heat pump working hard at 1pm so the house is already warm when the evening peak arrives.

Across the homes we monitor, the same pattern repeats: exporting hard at noon at 9c, buying the same energy back at dinner for three times that. Nobody is doing anything wrong. They were just never told that the gap is where their money goes — and that gap isn't a law of physics, it's a price someone set.

What have you actually managed to shift into the middle of the day, and did it show up on the bill?

28/10/2026

Solar panel cost in Tasmania

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Real solar panel costs in Tasmania for 2026 — 6.6kW, 10kW and 13.2kW pricing with STC rebate. Local quotes from SolarGenTas, no mainland averages.