I’ve written before about the difficulties facing the Australian solar industry in 2015. Volumes in June 2015 were 20% below volumes at the same time last year. But amidst the…
Year: 2015
5 Things That Go Wrong With Excel Solar Proposals
Many solar companies use an Excel-based quoting and proposal generation tool. But are Excel Solar Proposals really good enough? How much is wasted due to Excel’s shortfalls where it comes to…
How Do You Calculate Solar PV Payback?
How do you calculate Solar PV payback? Are you still using Excel to calculate your solar payback for customers? Excel is a fantastically awesome tool for doing quick calculations, but…
Nigel Morris takes the helm of leading solar retailer… what this means for the solar industry
As if it weren’t hard enough to make a buck out of solar already, the news that solar businesses won’t be able to get help from Nigel Morris anymore just…
Commercial Strategy Consultation
  Commercial Solar Consultation The Secrets To Success In Commercial Solar The Commercial Solar Market is expanding…Do you want to be prepared with a killer strategic approach? SunWiz can…
Solar Demand Reductions
When PV retailers start tackling commercial PV, they soon realise that commercial bills are more complex than residential bills…. a LOT more complex. One of the key differences is that…
Average System Size Hits 5kW
In June 2015 we’ve just seen the national average Australian solar PV system size hit 5kW! This is the highest we have ever seen and is a new landmark for…
Liquidity returns to the LGC market
Something unusual recently happened in the LGC market. While the solar industry was suffering through a terrible May, the LGC market came alive. Now, most LGC trading typically happens in…
Our Terrible May 2015
The Australian Solar industry has seen ups and downs, to the point of being described as a Solar Coaster. But now it is confronted by a protracted downturn, the likes…
Solar2015- Battery Storage Design for Grid Connected Systems
Our Presentation from Solar 2015 is now online. Read what the latest Tesla announcement means for battery storage design for grid-connected systems. In this presentation we show how in the…
SunWiz At Solar 2015
SunWiz is exhibiting and presenting at Solar 2015 this coming Wednesday and Thursday (13th & 14th May) Come along and: TOMORROW MORNING (Wed May 13th)Â See Warwick present on Battery Storage…
Solar pays its way on networks. It’s no free rider
The National Electricity Market wasn’t designed with distributed generation in mind. Indeed, one major design flaw acts to penalise solar power, and does so more in Australia than occurs in…
Clearing House shifts for the first time
Pop those champagne corks… Clearing House Shifts for the first time Well its been a long time coming, but SunWiz can now confirm that the Clearing House has shifted, rewarding those who…
A Tale of 2 States
Just as NSW recently broke the long drought of wins in state of origin, they’ve also made some impressive changes in PV market share! This month, NSW overtook Queensland to…
ProfitVoltaics - Putting the Profit back into PV
Revealing: ProfitVoltaics – Putting the Profit Back into PV Over the past three years, dozens of solar installers have approached SunWiz for advice in helping their commercial division turn a…
Wholesale Offer - Solar Industry Database
Unmissable Offer For Solar Wholesalers Does your business do wholesale?SunWiz have put a LOT of work into researching this information for you. Combine this ‘gold’ data with a few applied…
Why you absolutely must tackle the commercial market (and how to tackle it most profitably) - Part 2
Why you absolutely must tackle the commercial market (and how to tackle it most profitably) – Part 2 In part 2, we’re going to see more reasons and resources to tackle the commercial…
Why you absolutely must tackle the commercial market (and how to tackle it most profitably)
Here’s what’s in Part 1: The residential market is dying; the commercial market is thriving Commercial’s competitive advantage: cheap operators can’t afford to master Commercial PV There’s no margin for error (but this acts in…
Preliminary results from the Inverter and Panel Reliability and Warranty Survey
 Last week we emailed you requesting your input on a survey SunWiz is running on the Reliability and Warranty service of major inverter and panel brands. We’ve had 45…
Clearing House News
Clearing House News The Clearing House is approaching the point of shifting in Q1, and could likely Clear in Q2 (more…)
Australian Commercial PV Database
Australian Commercial PV Project Database Solar consultants SunWiz today launched a web project to reveal details on commercial solar systems installed in Australia to date. (more…)