https://iwce.org.au/our-work Our community, our projects, and other local news. en-AU https://iwce.org.au/our-work/iwce-customer-case-study-lucie https://iwce.org.au/our-work/iwce-customer-case-study-lucie Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT News “I have wanted to have solar panels installed since I moved in 15 years ago,” Lucie says. However, the shape and size of her roof, together with the lower… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/marrickville-womens-refuge-solar-project-completed https://iwce.org.au/our-work/marrickville-womens-refuge-solar-project-completed Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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 running at the… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-2025-26-annual-report https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-2025-26-annual-report Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT News Inner West Community Energy’s 2025-26 annual report is now available for download here (file size: 11.2MB). https://iwce.org.au/our-work/pop-up-solar-stall-on-the-greenway-1st-august https://iwce.org.au/our-work/pop-up-solar-stall-on-the-greenway-1st-august Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT News Inner West Community Energy will be on the Greenway at a solar pop-up stall organised by Solar Citizens. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/leichhardt-is-still-going-solar https://iwce.org.au/our-work/leichhardt-is-still-going-solar Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT News If you’d like to meet the team from IWCE, we’re holding a pop-up stall: https://iwce.org.au/our-work/electrify-the-inner-west-at-climate-in-the-pub https://iwce.org.au/our-work/electrify-the-inner-west-at-climate-in-the-pub Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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 8. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-lively-leichhardt-info-night-at-the-royal-hotel https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-lively-leichhardt-info-night-at-the-royal-hotel Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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 who made us… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/csiro-energy-expert-added-to-our-16-june-2026-event https://iwce.org.au/our-work/csiro-energy-expert-added-to-our-16-june-2026-event Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT News We’ve added another speaker to our agenda for our solar and battery information night next Tuesday in Leichhardt, Kel Lupis (pictured below) from the CSIRO’s… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/inner-west-community-energy-goes-global https://iwce.org.au/our-work/inner-west-community-energy-goes-global Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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 in the… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-short-history-of-iwce-and-ot-water-heat-pumps https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-short-history-of-iwce-and-ot-water-heat-pumps Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT News During 2023, IWCE was hearing a groundswell of interest from people interested in installing hot water heat pumps (HWHP). Concurrently, the federal and state… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/another-lively-solar-and-battery-info-night-in-marrickville https://iwce.org.au/our-work/another-lively-solar-and-battery-info-night-in-marrickville Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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 Marrickville, for… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/milestone-50-hot-water-heat-pumps https://iwce.org.au/our-work/milestone-50-hot-water-heat-pumps Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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, hot water is almost as… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/inner-west-councils-climate-strategy-community-consultation https://iwce.org.au/our-work/inner-west-councils-climate-strategy-community-consultation Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT News Inner West Council is updating its climate strategy, and is conducting a community consultation process. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-500th-solar-system https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-500th-solar-system Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/the-federal-battery-rebate-whats-actually-changing-on-may-1st https://iwce.org.au/our-work/the-federal-battery-rebate-whats-actually-changing-on-may-1st Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT News In recent weeks, there has been much speculation and disinformation online concerning the status of rebates for solar and batteries. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-100th-home-battery-installed https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-100th-home-battery-installed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT News Meet Leichhardt resident Marjan*, the happy owner of the 100th home battery we have facilitated in the Inner West. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-recent-solar-info-night-for-climate-action-week https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-recent-solar-info-night-for-climate-action-week Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-milton-and-rosemary https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-milton-and-rosemary Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/upcoming-solar-and-battery-info-night-tuesday-10-march https://iwce.org.au/our-work/upcoming-solar-and-battery-info-night-tuesday-10-march Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-sue-in-leichhardt https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-sue-in-leichhardt Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-lively-solar-info-night-in-st-peters https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-lively-solar-info-night-in-st-peters Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-paul-of-north-strathfield https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-paul-of-north-strathfield Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-lindsay-of-leichhardt https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-lindsay-of-leichhardt Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/end-of-year-volunteer-celebration https://iwce.org.au/our-work/end-of-year-volunteer-celebration Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/joe-and-sara-are-all-electric https://iwce.org.au/our-work/joe-and-sara-are-all-electric Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-annual-report-is-now-available https://iwce.org.au/our-work/our-annual-report-is-now-available Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/inner-west-community-energy-is-a-total-godsend-says-herald-columnist-and-iwce-member-jenna-price https://iwce.org.au/our-work/inner-west-community-energy-is-a-total-godsend-says-herald-columnist-and-iwce-member-jenna-price Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT News Here’s Jenna’s column from the Sydney Morning Herald of Monday, December 1, 2025. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/will-the-new-solar-sharer-plan-kill-rooftop-solar https://iwce.org.au/our-work/will-the-new-solar-sharer-plan-kill-rooftop-solar Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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? https://iwce.org.au/our-work/electrifying-burwood-a-community-evening https://iwce.org.au/our-work/electrifying-burwood-a-community-evening Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-lively-info-night-in-dulwich-hill https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-lively-info-night-in-dulwich-hill Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/electricity-can-be-dangerous https://iwce.org.au/our-work/electricity-can-be-dangerous Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-chris-in-dulwich-hill https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-chris-in-dulwich-hill Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT News What’s this man doing sitting up on the first-floor ledge at the rear of his Dulwich Hill home? https://iwce.org.au/our-work/special-guest-at-upcoming-event https://iwce.org.au/our-work/special-guest-at-upcoming-event Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT News Special guest at our Solar and Battery Night at The Royal, Leichhardt! https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-buzzing-home-battery-mini-expo-in-marrickille https://iwce.org.au/our-work/a-buzzing-home-battery-mini-expo-in-marrickille Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT News Around 120 Inner Westies descended on the beautiful Marrickville Pavillion on Saturday, August 16 for our first ever Home Battery Mini-Expo. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-josh-in-balmain https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-josh-in-balmain Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT News When University of Sydney science professor Joshua Cinner moved to Sydney from North Queensland 18 months ago, he knew he wanted to go solar. He had solar in… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-andy-and-karen-of-rozelle https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-andy-and-karen-of-rozelle Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT News Long-term Rozelle residents Andy and Karen had been thinking about installing solar for quite some time. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/community-housing-tenants-go-solar https://iwce.org.au/our-work/community-housing-tenants-go-solar Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-clare-and-david-in-penshurst https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-clare-and-david-in-penshurst Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/federal-member-jerome-laxale-for-household-electrification https://iwce.org.au/our-work/federal-member-jerome-laxale-for-household-electrification Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT News Pictured, left to right: Solar householder Simon Reed, Inner West Community Energy committee member Amanda Deacon, Jerome Laxale, and Inner West Community… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-dover-heights https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-dover-heights Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT News A beautiful new solar installation for John’s family in Dover Heights. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-chiswick https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-chiswick Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT News Tracey and Vic Arciuli moved into their Chiswick house a few years ago knowing it had a small solar PV system. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-annandale https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-annandale Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT News Jane Paes, a student in building design, lives in Annandale with her husband Wil Honner and their two children. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-chatswood https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-chatswood Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Happy Solar Family 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-lilyfield https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-lilyfield Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-marrickville https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-marrickville Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT News 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… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-stanmore https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-stanmore Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Happy Solar Family Stanmore resident Dylan Hamilton-Foster’s solar journey began two years ago when he attended one of our Solar Information Nights in Five Dock. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-summer-hill https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-summer-hill Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Happy Solar Family Summer Hill residents Sarah and Justine looked into going solar eight or so years ago but were then put off by the price. https://iwce.org.au/our-work/community-project-leichhardt-womens-community-health-centre https://iwce.org.au/our-work/community-project-leichhardt-womens-community-health-centre Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT Community Project The tag says “Out of Service” and we’re thrilled to report that this gas meter is indeed out of service because we’ve just supported Leichhardt Women’s… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-marrickville-charlotte-wood https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-marrickville-charlotte-wood Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT Happy Solar Family Marrickville resident and Inner West Community Energy member Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the Booker prize, the world’s most prestigious prize for… https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-newtown https://iwce.org.au/our-work/happy-solar-family-newtown Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT Happy Solar Family 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…