Solargentas

07/06/2026

Shout out to our favourite local cafe Marla Singer. Best coffee and cafe food on the East Side. Thanks for letting us leave some cards. 20% off solar for all your staff and co-owners.

06/06/2026

Let’s keep our environment clean and safe for future generations.

06/06/2026

☀️ Finland is installing solar panels on everything from reindeer farms to Arctic research stations — and the results are rewriting the rules of cold-climate solar.

Finland sits between 60 and 70 degrees north latitude — closer to the North Pole than to the Mediterranean. For decades, solar energy was considered economically irrelevant here. The conventional wisdom said that solar belonged to Spain, Australia, and the Middle East — not the land of long winters and polar nights. Finnish engineers and entrepreneurs have spent the last decade systematically dismantling that assumption.

The physics works in Finland's favor in ways that surprise people. Solar panels are semiconductor devices, and like all semiconductors, they perform better in cold temperatures. A Finnish winter day — bright, cold, and with snow reflecting additional light onto panel surfaces — can produce more electricity per hour of sunlight than a hot summer day in southern Europe. Finland's summer, with its extraordinarily long days and midnight sun in the north, delivers weeks of near-continuous generation that compensates strongly for the dark winter months.

Finnish company Fortum has been pioneering cold-climate solar installations across the country, integrating rooftop and ground-mounted systems with smart grid controls that maximize self-consumption and battery storage. Agricultural installations — solar panels mounted above berry farms, reindeer grazing land, and dairy operations — provide farmers with clean electricity income while protecting crops from excessive summer radiation.

Finland's national target of carbon neutrality by 2035 is the most ambitious in the EU for a country of its size. Solar is a growing and increasingly indispensable part of the pathway to achieving it.

Source: Finnish Energy Authority (Energiavirasto) & Fortum, 2024

04/06/2026

When you have Solar accurate weather forecasting is important. We got sick of BOM so we build our own for the Eastern Shore.

Real backyard conditions from a 15kW Tasmanian solar farm — sensor stream, BOM radar, we**am, multi-station view.

03/06/2026

Gas is not a “transition fuel”.

03/06/2026

Legend

On 3 June 1992, the High Court of Australia overturned the legal concept of 'terra nullius' — that land claimed by white settlers belonged to no one.

Mabo Day marks that momentous victory and honours the legacy of the man who, alongside his wife Bonita, fought so hard for it — Eddie Mabo.

03/06/2026

02/06/2026