Sky Energy or Red Earth Energy owners: how to keep your system supported If you own a Sky Energy or SkyBox system (or a Red Earth Energy system) and you are struggling to get service, warranty help or even a reply from the company that supplied it, you are not alone and yo...
Replacing a Diesel Generator with Solar and Battery: What Actually Changes If you run a remote site, a station, a mine camp or a farm workshop, chances are a diesel generator has been the backbone of your power for years. It works. It also costs you every single hour it runs...
What AS/NZS IEC 61439 Actually Means — and Why Form Separation Matters If you have quoted or specified a switchboard in the last few years, you have seen the phrase "design verified to AS/NZS IEC 61439" on the paperwork. It gets used as a tick in a box. It is worth knowi...
Blackout-Ready: Preparing Your NSW Home for Storm Season Power Cuts When the power goes out across NSW — a summer storm tearing down lines, a winter front knocking out a substation, or a planned outage for grid maintenance — most homes simply go dark. The fridge warms...
Flat EV on a NSW Road? A Charging Station That Comes To You Every EV driver has done the maths at some point: how far to the next charger, and what happens if I get it wrong? Until now the answer in NSW was a flatbed tow — slow, expensive, and rough on a car t...
Off-Grid Batteries vs On-Grid Batteries: What Rural NSW Needs to Know If your property is at the end of a long rural feeder, loses power every storm season, or has no grid at all, the battery conversation is different — and most of the advice online, written for suburba...
NSW Battery Rebates in 2026: What You Actually Get (and How They Stack) If you have been putting off a home battery, 2026 is the year the maths finally works in your favour — but the window on the biggest savings is closing a little every year. Here is how the rebates act...