Introducing SolarQuotes Editor Max Opray

Hello folks,

My name is Max Opray, and I’ve just started in the new role of SolarQuotes editor. For over a decade I’ve been covering green energy as a journalist, and I’m thrilled to be enlisting with an organisation that has played such a key role in Australia’s solar revolution.

Across my career, I’ve reported on everything from how to phase out gas the same way we cut CFCs, to the homes with batteries hosting “blackout parties” in country Australia, to why home electrification doesn’t mean banning the barbeque, to the best ways to eliminate your sense of climate doom.

My appointment is part of a push by SolarQuotes to expand coverage to all things home electrification. As feed-in rates continue to fall, self-consumption is more important than ever to getting value out of rooftop solar, and we’ll be detailing how readers can soak up all that sun and use it to eliminate their gas and petrol bills entirely.

It’s a goal that resonates with me as I’m personally on something of a similar trajectory. After buying my first solar-appropriate home last year I went to SolarQuotes to get connected to three vetted installers in Adelaide, and opted in the end for DQ Electrical, who did a terrific job setting up my northwest-facing 10.4kW REC solar panel system (which has worked hand-in-glove with my Nissan Leaf EV to cut our electricity and transport expenses down nearly to zero).

All that’s left is my gas bill from hot water and cooking, so heat pumps and induction cooktops are next on the agenda. Finn’s latest video on hot water heat pumps is a great place to start if you’re on a similar mission.

I’ll be working with Finn and the rest of the team to refine our coverage without losing any of the rigour, technical expertise and colourful personality that has defined SolarQuotes to date. If you don’t believe me, see Ronald’s latest on the Dutch “meticulously torturing” solar panels — which for most of the edit made me feel like I’d slipped into a rather educational lucid dream.

If you have any suggestions for what you’d like to see SolarQuotes cover more of (or thinly veiled threats regarding what you don’t want to see changed at all), do let me know in the comments below.

Take care,

Max Opray

Original Source: https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/introducing-solarquotes-editor-max-opray/