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Now that the NSW Solar for Apartment Residents (SoAR) grants of 50% up to $150,000 for strata schemes are open, we've created a short presentation to help you as a strata committee member optimise the process. Soon you will be "SoARing" to new heights....
In October 2023, the NSW government opened up $10m of co-funding for EV charging infrastructure in strata buildings. 28th February 2025 saw the launch of $25m by Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns of Solar for Apartments (SoAR) rebates. These are for solar systems which feed solar power into individual apartments to reduce cost-of-living pressures....
What are the top 20 key trends which we are going to see in residential strata electrification over the course of 2025....
In this blog, we provide some examples of Sydney Strata buildings which have installed solar systems which share solar power into individual apartments via the Allume Energy Solar Sharing System known as "Solshare"....
The type of people who live in the Wharf Terraces include the former CEO of Louis Vuitton Australia, Phillip Corne and Greg Duncan, former owner of Trivett Automotive Group, Australia’s largest prestige automotive group. You will also find some retired supreme court judges, economic consultants and hardcore business types. It also doesn't hurt to have a Chairperson who was the daughter of an electrician....
The Australian federal government has said that the first V2G EV chargepoints will be certified by Christmas 2024. Chris Bowen announced this at the Sydney International EV show in November 2024.
What does this mean for residential strata buildings? In this short "point-of-view" Wattblock's Sean Cowan explores how apartment electrification can ease the cost of living crisis in Australia and in particular, Sydney. The full document can be read in PDF format here.
Over the past 10 years, Wattblock and its customers and partners have completed a number of webinars and online videos relating to the electrification of strata buildings. These range from solar, battery, EV charging, heat pump, ventilation, LED lighting, electricity monitoring webinars to videos on social issues relating to the operation of strata committees and videos to influence government policy directions. We have now listed all of these, ranked them on quality from 1 to 5 stars and provided a description of these to help people find the videos of most interest. To download the PDF of the Wattblock Strata Electrification videos click here.
The Australian Liberal-National Coalition's renewed push for nuclear energy taps into a recurring narrative within the national energy debate—one that promises a future of dispatchable, reliable, and cheap electricity. While nuclear power would indeed deliver on dispatchability and reliability, the claim of it being cheap doesn't hold up under scrutiny, especially within the Australian context. Read on for how the funds from just one of seven proposed nuclear power stations could alternatively be deployed into NSW strata buildings....
Domain Real Estate site has released its 2024 Sustainability Report. Find out what it means for strata...
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