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IWCE Customer Case Study - Lucie
22 September 2027 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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Marrickville Women’s Refuge solar project completed
23 August 2026 By Gavin Gilchrist Inner West Community Energy’s latest community solar project, a 16.15 kilowatt solar PV system with a 25 kilowatt-hour battery, is now up and…
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Our 2025-26 Annual Report
9 August 2026 By Amanda Deacon Inner West Community Energy’s 2025-26 annual report is now available for download here (file size: 11.2MB). Inside, you will find: - Reports from: -…
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Pop-up solar stall on the Greenway, 1st August!
31 July 2026 By Gavin Gilchrist Inner West Community Energy will be on the Greenway at a solar pop-up stall organised by Solar Citizens. - When? Tomorrow (1 August) from 8:30am to…
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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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“Electrify the Inner West” at Climate in the Pub!
6 July 2026 By Gavin Gilchrist That’s the topic for renewable energy engineer Jasper Webster, who’s the headline act at the next Climate in the Pub in Rozelle this Wednesday, July…
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A lively Leichhardt info night at the Royal Hotel
17 Jun 2026 By Gavin Gilchrist A big shout out to all our attendees at last night’s Solar and Battery Information Night at the Royal Hotel in Leichhardt, and to the staff there…
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CSIRO energy expert added to our 16 June 2026 event!
12 June 2026 By Gavin Gilchrist We’ve added another speaker to our agenda for our solar and battery information night next Tuesday in Leichhardt, Kel Lupis (pictured below) from…
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Inner West Community Energy goes global!
17 June 2026 By Gavin Gilchrist When China Global TV wanted a case study of a Sydney resident who had recently installed a home battery, Inner West Community Energy pointed them…
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A short history of IWCE and ot 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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Another lively Solar and Battery Info Night in Marrickville!
30 May 2026 By Gavin Gilchrist Great to meet another bunch of Inner Westies who braved the wet on Thursday night to join us at Gasoline Pony wine bar and music venue in…
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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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Inner West Council’s climate strategy: Community consultation
10 May 2026 Inner West Council is updating its climate strategy, and is conducting a community consultation process. You can provide feedback via survey, email, phone, post, or…
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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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Solar and battery rebates: What’s actually changing on May 1st?
12 April 2026 In recent weeks, there has been much speculation and disinformation online concerning the status of rebates for solar and batteries. Here’s some clarification on…
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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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Our recent Solar and Battery Info Night for Climate Action Week
11 March 2026 This was our contribution to Climate Action Week Sydney - a packed HP Bowlo wine bar in Hurlstone Park last night, another of our popular Solar and Battery…
Read more →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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Upcoming Solar and Battery Info Night: Tuesday 10 March
Interested in installing rooftop solar, batteries… maybe electrifying your whole house and abandoning the use of fossil gas? Don’t know where to start? This event is for you! For…
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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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A lively Solar Info Night in St Peter’s
3 February 2026 The Inner West still has half the uptake of rooftop solar of much of the rest of Australia so last night we were back in the community doing what we can to drive…
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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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End-of-year volunteer celebration
14 December 2025 It was back to Leichhardt Bowling Club on Thursday evening for the Inner West Community Energy management committee and our volunteers for our end of year…
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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…
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Our 2024/25 Annual Report is now available
7 December 2025 The team at Inner West Community Energy is happy to share that our Annual Report for the previous financial year (2024/25) is now available. Learn more about our…
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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Will the new “Solar Sharer” plan kill rooftop solar?
22 November 2025 With three free hours of electricity in the middle of the day being mandated from next July, is there any point in buying rooftop solar? We say, yes! A drone…
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Electrifying Burwood - A community evening
14 November 2025 While Liberals in Canberra on Tuesday night were rubber stamping their brand of climate denialism, here in the real world we were at a community forum in Burwood…
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A lively info night in Dulwich Hill!
1 November 2025 Thanks to the highly-engaged crowd who turned up last Monday for “Go Solar and Storage in Dulwich Hill!”*, our information night at Butchers Brew Bar on…
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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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Special guest at upcoming event!
September 2025 Special guest at our Solar and Battery Night at The Royal, Leichhardt! We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be hearing from one of our members at the next Solar…
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A buzzing Home Battery Mini-Expo in Marrickille
August 2025 Around 120 Inner Westies descended on the beautiful Marrickville Pavillion on Saturday, August 16 for our first ever Home Battery Mini-Expo. A break in the August rain…
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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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Community housing tenants go solar
18 May 2025 The completion of this $28,000 community solar project will be one of the highlights of our 2025… and we can confidently say that even though we’re not even halfway…
Read more →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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Federal Labor member Jerome Laxale for household electrification
1 April 2025 Pictured, left to right: Solar householder Simon Reed, Inner West Community Energy committee member Amanda Deacon, Jerome Laxale, and Inner West Community Energy…
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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: 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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