Press features and field notes on New Zealand solar — the standards, the workforce, and the case for getting it done right.
RNZWith subsidies for rooftop solar likely after the election, installers warn the workforce isn’t ready. Brad features throughout — Solar One has scaled from a one-man van to seven staff — calling for a fast-track “boot camp” to lift electricians onto solar before demand spikes.
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BusinessDeskBrad with former PM Chris Hipkins at the Ara Ake projectSolar One installed the first commercial run of Solarge’s ultra-light, fully circular panels outside the Netherlands — a world-first at Ara Ake’s New Plymouth energy centre, on a refurbished roof that couldn’t carry conventional panels. Brad helped design the 15 kWp system, pointing to lightweight solar as a way to unlock roofs previously off-limits.
Read on BusinessDeskWhat the move to a 10 kW default export limit means for the systems you can sell — and why it's not the end of the world.
Read →Lessons from the field on why monitoring pays for itself — and what quietly goes wrong when it's left out.
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