Who Led the Australian Solar Market in 2024? The Australian solar retail market remains highly competitive, with some retailers consolidating market share while new challengers continue to emerge. The 2025…
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Did Australia Just Lose Its Leading Solar Nation Status?
Still #1 in Solar Per Capita, but Falling in Global Rankings For years, Australia has been recognized as a global solar leader, consistently ranking among the top countries for solar…
Residential Solar Slowdown & The Shift to New Opportunities
How the Residential Solar Market Declined & Where Retailers Should Focus Next The Australian residential solar market experienced a noticeable slowdown in 2024, marking one of its weakest years in…
Why Commercial Solar Had Its Best Year Ever in 2024
Australia’s Commercial Solar Market Continues to Surge The Australian commercial solar sector experienced record-breaking growth in 2024, driven by strong demand in the 15-30kW and 1-5MW segments. According to the…
The State of Solar in Australia: Key Takeaways from the 2025 SunWiz PV Market Report
The Australian solar industry continues to be a major player in the global renewable energy transition, and 2024 was no exception. The latest 2025 Annual SunWiz Australian PV Market Report…

Which battery brands are most popular in Australia?
SunWiz is the preeminent provider of analysis of the Australian battery market. We’ve recently expanded our coverage of the battery manufacturer market share. Here’s some interesting things we’ve seen. Chinese…

Australia’s battery market is holding up well, despite the solar slowdown.
Each year, SunWiz publishes an Annual Battery Market report that is the most comprehensive and robust assessment of the Australian market for energy storage systems. But in this fast-moving market,…

A closer look at some record-breaking commercial PV market segments
Today we’re sharing some content from our new Commercial market feature in Luminate. It’s a closer look at some record-breaking commercial PV market segments. So while the residential PV remains…

How can there be record volumes when everyone’s feeling so much pain
How can there be record volumes when everyone’s feeling so much pain? We’re hearing solar retailers are in a world of pain. But the market is setting records. What can…

Battery Manufacturer Market Share
SunWiz is the leading source of information about Australian market share of each ESS/battery brand. This year the SunWiz 2024 Annual Battery Market Report revealed for the first time, the…

Why the battery market must be accelerated
After years of progressive increase in residential market uptake of Energy Storage Systems (ESS), some market players have suggested we have exhausted the early adopters and are into the next…

ESS system sizes have not steadily increased in the same way PV system sizes did
ESS system sizes have not steadily increased in the same way PV system sizes did. The often-presented chart of PV sizes shows a steady march of 1.5kW making way for…

Pre-existing PV is more common (and impactful) than realised in battery sales
For more than a decade, Australia has led the world in uptake of residential PV. The industry-reshaping impacts of that world-leadership are now emerging as a daily experience. 22% of…

2023's record-breaking battery market in charts
It was a record breaking year across the board for Energy Storage Systems in Australia. There were a record-breaking 57,000 residential installations in 2023, tallying a record-setting 656 MWh of…
Media Release: Record-breaking year for battery installations across Australia in 2023
Record-breaking year for battery installations across Australia in 2023 A record number of batteries were installed across Australia in 2023, in homes, businesses and at grid-scale, according to a…

What PV prices are in the goldilocks zone this month?
So much of solar SME’s success relates to prices. Charge too much and you’ll scare off customers. Charge too little and you’ll not cover your overheads. To maximise your…

Hindsight is foresight's poor cousin. Here's what's about to happen in solar
Hi there, Small solar retailers need to understand what large retailers already know: Hindsight is the poor cousin of foresight. Especially for the solar industry. Hindsight vs Foresight You…

Solar Farms 2023
In January 2023, SunWiz predicted 2023 would be the worst year for energization of new solar farms since their rollout began in earnest. Unfortunately, we were proved correct. 1.1GW of…

Outlook 2024
If 14 years of solar industry analysis has taught me one thing, it is the impossibility of predicting future solar power deployment volumes. The monthly ups and downs of the…

The best places for solar power in 2023
For the Australian PV industry, 2023 was a year that was better by most accounts than 2022, unless you were in solar farm construction. But that growth didn’t apply evenly…

Commercial
The 2024 Annual SunWiz Australian PV Report has been released. Here’s what it has to say about the market for commercial solar energy: The STC commercial market grew by 25%…