Near record year for residential solar power installations Rooftop solar power systems were installed 11% faster in Australia in 2023 than in 2022, and fell just short of record levels,…
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The 2024 Annual SunWiz Australian PV Report
The 2024 Annual SunWiz Australian PV Report has been released. Here’s what it has to say: 4.6 GW of PV capacity in total was installed in 2023, which lifted total…
Top Volume Retailers 2023
What does it take to be a Top Volume Retailer? The 2024 Annual SunWiz Australian PV Market Report provides the volumes and trends of the Top 50 STC retailers nationally…
10+3 Things you must know when you attend All Energy
Here’s SunWiz’s list of things you must know when you attend All Energy 2023 will likely be a record year, and 2024 will start strong. Average system sizes are increasing,…
Connecting with the decision makers of local businesses that should buy from you
In our recent opinion piece, we discussed The biggest challenging emerging for the Australian solar industry, and what to do about it. One of the key recommendations was as their…
How to Partner with the Most-Reputable Retailers
In our recent opinion piece, we discussed The biggest challenging emerging for the Australian solar industry, and what to do about it. One of the key recommendations was as their…
Sizing up Every Australian Solar Retailer - Here's How
In our recent opinion piece, we discussed The biggest challenging emerging for the Australian solar industry, and what to do about it. One of the key recommendations was manufacturers should…
The biggest challenge emerging for the solar industry (and what to do about it)
The plunging price of solar panels is the biggest challenging emerging for Australian solar industry. Whereas low price panels benefits consumers and stimulates demand, this plunge will have a wide-felt,…
Mid-scale solutions providers are the future, not solely solar retailers
The solar industry is heading towards convergence that will reshape solar retailers.  Why consolidation hasn’t happened, but that’s about to change. For a long time, people have predicted the…
SWOT Assessing your Competition - Panel & Inverter Manufacturers in the Australian PV Industry
Plenty of panel and inverter manufacturers have a good grasp on their own business. Many have loyalty programs or direct relationships with their key retailers, and collect feedback via…
Grow market share with retailer partners using luminate - here's how
Using Luminate to Grow Market Share through Retailer Partners PRODUCT DEMONSTRATION June 2023 If you’re providing equipment or services to the solar industry, you’ll be selling to retailers. Solar retailers…
Using SunWiz Luminate to Identify HOW & WHY Jinko Is Australia's #1 Panel by Volume
USING LUMINATE TO IDENTIFY HOW & WHY JINKO IS AUSTRALIA’S #1 PANEL BY VOLUME July 2023 This article runs through a demonstration of how luminate can be used to…
Crucial reasons to get mid-year updates on the battery market
We described in our recent post showed the immense amount of effort we go to, together with our data partners, in order to calculate the ESS market size each year. …
The battery market size is higher than many people realise
The question SunWiz gets asked most these days is “How big is the battery market”. That’s a question that’s perfectly understandable. After all, there is a government database that accurately…
There are actually five different battery market segments in Australia
Australia is the unequivocal leader in rooftop solar. As a result of ongoing rollout of PV across our nation, there are now almost 3.5million PV systems adorning our homes and…
De-rating DER should be a last resort
Right now we need every solar watt-hour of solar electricity possible to be injected into our grid. Our planet can’t afford for us to keep burning fossil fuels. So it…
Electrification: should PV retailers offer heat pumps
Solar power ate the lunch of the solar hot water industry. I joined the solar industry at a time when “solar panels” produced hot water, not electricity. That was…
Battery-to-Solar Attachment Rates
There was one Energy Storage System for every PV system installed in 2022, according to the recently released 2023 SunWiz Annual Australian Battery Market Report. The ratio of ESS-to-PV installations…
Why a 5-star Google rating isn't enough anymore (for Australia's best solar retailers)
Who is Australia’s best solar retailer? Customers are forever trying to figure out who is the best solar retailer for their needs. My friends and family constantly ask me the…
Virtual Power Plants - have they come of age?
Virtual Power Plants have been touted as the future of Australia’s grid. A grid with high penetration of distributed energy resources will inevitably need some coordination to stably operate. Electricity…
Unpacking crucial sub-segments of the solar+storage market
Successful manufacturers offer products that meet the needs of the market. The same is true for manufacturers of energy storage systems, as it is for battery wholesalers and retailers. The…