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Energy price increases are on the horizon. Now is the time to start considering home solar power to keep your bills under control.

In the past year wholesale power costs, that being the prices energy retailers pay to purchase power from energy producers such as power plants, have risen as much as 140%.

We’re proud to have partnered with the Evergen team in order to offer our customers the very best in home energy management systems free of charge for the lifetime of the system, when processed through Solargain. Saving our customers more money and making better use of their energy.

Following up on our recent video essay covering an installation we did in Echuca, our Wangaratta team also had the opportunity to work on a large ground-mounted solar installation with Clenergy.

Australia is the perfect place for solar. Homeowners have known this for some time, and the uptake of solar around the country has only continued to grow year on year on year. However, electricity networks sometimes struggle to keep up with the amount of excess solar energy being exported to the grid. That's where export limiting comes in.

Recently, our Echuca location had the opportunity to work alongside Clenergy on a unique solar energy installation in a rural area. A roof-mounted system was not going to work for homeowner Trevor Vincent’s beautiful 20-hectare property right by the creek. So, we had to come up with something unique. Check out the video below or read on for more details.

When deciding on the best panel for your home, there are a number of factors one needs to consider. The best panel for a home in Europe might not be the best panel for a home in Australia. We only stock the best of the best, but what’s the best for you?

Solargain is adding EV Charging to the repertoire of different renewable products we offer. The latest in home charging options, this range of chargers represents one more step forward down the path towards a totally renewable future.

On the 14th of February we started a competition for one lucky customer in the Brisbane metropolitan area to win a 180 L iStore system (valued at $2,990) simply by getting a quote on a solar energy system from our team. We had plenty of entries but in the end only one winner could emerge. So, congratulations to Nicholas Gordon of Redbank!

Batteries have been seeing a recent rise in popularity, thanks to the increasing convenience and ease of purchase across Australia. Many government incentives and rebates have become available, battery efficiencies have increased, all while prices continue to fall.

For residents of WA new rules put in place by energy regulator Western Power may prove rather costly. These new rules require that all main switches be updated to circuit-breaker main switches.

Recently, Infinite Energy announced that they would be exiting PV (operational), and will be focusing on other opportunities and markets. As a long-time competitor of theirs, this was disappointing to see, as it reflects on the misdirection and poor practices utilised by many companies in the industry that could lead to an ethical and reputable company like Infinite Energy to be unable to keep pace. Infinite Energy chief executive officer Andrew Sutherland described the issue in his announcement, saying that; “While the Western Australia (WA) solar market continues to add rooftop solar