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IWCE Customer Case Study - Lucie
22 September 2026 By IWCE volunteer Ben Goh and Inner West resident Lucie 1. Goal and Challenge “I have wanted to have solar panels installed since I moved in 15 years ago,” Lucie…
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Leichhardt is still going solar!
24 July 2026 By John Macleay Meet the IWCE team! If you’d like to meet the team from IWCE, we’re holding a pop-up stall: - When? Saturday 1 August, 8:30 till 10:30am. - Where?…
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A short history of IWCE and hot water heat pumps
8 June 2026 By Peter Lawson During 2023, IWCE was hearing a groundswell of interest from people interested in installing hot water heat pumps (HWHP). Concurrently, the federal and…
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Milestone: 50 Hot Water Heat Pumps!
12 May 2026 By Peter Lawson and Gavin Gilchrist You may think hot water is a bit of a dull subject - but for those of us helping households cut power bills and carbon emissions,…
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Our 500th solar system!
9 May 2026 We started with a vision nine years ago - to make it easier for residents across the Inner West to install solar, removing the hassle factor and trusting us to help…
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Our 100th home battery installed!
23 March 2026 Meet Leichhardt resident Marjan*, the happy owner of the 100th home battery we have facilitated in the Inner West. She’s the one here holding one of our fence signs,…
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Happy Solar Family: Milton and Rosemary
Typically, it takes two to three months from start to finish for an Inner West household to go solar with a battery but, very occasionally, it can take longer. This is the story…
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Happy Solar Family: Sue of Leichhardt
With Inner West Community Energy support, Leichhardt resident Sue had a 2.375 kilowatt rooftop solar system and 13.44 kilowatt-hour battery installed two months ago. Here’s her…
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Happy Solar Family: Paul of North Strathfield
27 January 2026 Since the home battery rebate started last July, Inner West Community Energy has facilitated more than $540,000 worth of batteries. One of the first to place his…
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Happy Solar Family: Lindsay of Leichhardt
Leichhardt resident Lindsay Pells has lived in her current house for 14 years but with the arrival last year of the federal battery rebate, it was time to reach out for our help…
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Joe and Sara are all electric!
7 December 2025 Let’s check in on Joe and Sara Wickert of Marrickville (first profiled by us here), one of the first IWCE members to have a battery installed after the new big…
Read more →Inner West Community Energy is a “total godsend” says Herald columnist (and IWCE member) Jenna Price!
Here’s Jenna’s column from the Sydney Morning Herald of Monday, December 1, 2025. By Jenna Price If you think the Liberals are struggling with a clean-energy future, meet me. I’m…
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Electricity can be dangerous!
19 October 2025 Never has our strict policy of solar installers always going on site to meet potential customers proved to be so important as it was when installer Roland Lawrence…
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Happy Solar Family: Chris in Dulwich Hill
What’s this man doing sitting up on the first-floor ledge at the rear of his Dulwich Hill home? It’s our new solar- and battery-owning member Chris Atherton, sitting proudly next…
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Happy Solar Family: Josh in Balmain
27 July 2025 “OUR FIRST POWER BILL WITH THIS SYSTEM WAS ZERO DOLLARS.” When University of Sydney science professor Joshua Cinner moved to Sydney from North Queensland 18 months…
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Happy Solar Family: Andy and Karen of Rozelle
21 May 2025 Long-term Rozelle residents Andy and Karen had been thinking about installing solar for quite some time. “My Mum already has solar in Queensland and raves over it,”…
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Happy Solar Family: Clare and David in Penshurst
13 April 2025 Retired school teachers Clare Dwyer and David Roffe had an old rooftop solar system they knew they wanted to upgrade but they were struggling to work out who they…
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Happy Solar Family: Dover Heights
A beautiful new solar installation for John’s family in Dover Heights. We’re regularly asked if we can help people outside the Inner West with solar and all things to do with home…
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Happy Solar Family: Chiswick
Tracey and Vic Arciuli moved into their Chiswick house a few years ago knowing it had a small solar PV system. But when their quarterly bill hit over $1800 - they do have two…
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Happy Solar Family: Annandale
Jane Paes, a student in building design, lives in Annandale with her husband Wil Honner and their two children. When Jane and Wil embarked on their recent renovations, they knew…
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Happy Solar Family: Chatswood
OK, Chatswood is not the Inner West, but when we ran into Chatswood resident Dr Craig Lewis at a school reunion in Ashfield recently and he asked for help going solar, we could…
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Happy Solar Family: Lilyfield
Like many in the Inner West, Christie-Jane and Paul had been keen to install solar PV for some time, but as she has a full-time job, is a pilates teacher and an amateur basketball…
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Happy Solar Family: Marrickville
For Marrickville residents Alice and Owen Ferguson, the decision to install a large solar PV system and battery was driven heavily by a desire to do what they could for the…
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Happy Solar Family: Stanmore
Stanmore resident Dylan Hamilton-Foster’s solar journey began two years ago when he attended one of our Solar Information Nights in Five Dock. At that stage he hadn’t settled on…
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Happy Solar Family: Summer Hill
Summer Hill residents Sarah and Justine looked into going solar eight or so years ago but were then put off by the price. This year, they decided to have another look at how much…
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Happy Solar Family - Marrickville
Wow! Here’s a huge thing for the Inner West! Marrickville resident and Inner West Community Energy member Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the Booker prize, the world’s…
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Happy Solar Family: Newtown
Newtown resident Dr Mark Askew has now received his first full quarterly power bill since his solar was installed in late May. Normally at this time of year his bill would be…
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