Solar Today

How much sun your rooftop panels will get today, hour by hour, and the best window to run the washing, charge the car or fill the battery off your own roof — modelled from the sun forecast for the valley.

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Day

Sun

Full-sun hrs

Best window

Today

Good

4.5 h

11 am–6 pm

Tomorrow

Strong

7.1 h

9 am–7 pm

Wednesday

Strong

8.1 h

9 am–7 pm

Getting the most from your roof

Run the dishwasher and washing machine in the middle of the day, when your panels are producing hardest — not overnight.

If you have a home or community battery, the solar peak is when it fills; loads you can delay to the evening then run off stored sun.

Charging an EV? Top it up on the daytime peak rather than on an overnight plan, so it drinks your own solar.

Winter days are short and the sun sits low, so the good window is narrower than in summer — aim the big loads squarely at the middle of the day.

A grey, overcast day still makes some power, just far less — this page will show a weak day honestly so you're not left guessing.

The community energy program

This page can’t see the batteries, the mini-grids or the virtual power plant — for those, and to take part, go straight to the community energy channels:

Totally Renewable Yackandandahthe community energy project — the batteries, the mini-grids and how to take part

Indigo Powerthe community-owned retailer, to join the local energy sharing

Worth knowing

A town that set out to run on renewables

Totally Renewable Yackandandah (TRY), started by residents in 2014, set the goal of powering the town entirely on renewable electricity. About 65% of the town's rooftops now carry solar panels, and TRY has helped drive more than two million dollars of community solar and battery investment.

Totally Renewable Yackandandah

Two community batteries

Yack01, at the old sawmill, pairs a 65 kW solar array with 274 kWh of storage — enough to carry dozens of homes through the evening. Yack02, at the Sports Park, adds a 200 kWh battery that can even run in island mode if the grid goes down. They store the town's midday sun for the evening.

AusNet Services — Yack01 & Yack02 community batteries

A virtual power plant, and a community retailer

Around 210 Yackandandah properties are linked into a virtual power plant that shares and trades local solar. Indigo Power — a community-owned energy retailer born out of TRY in 2019 — lets households with panels share energy with the rest of town and puts half its profits back into local clean-energy projects.

Indigo Power