How your data benefits you AND your planet

Our mission is to address climate change by helping the Solar Industry go 3x faster and 5x more effective.

To go way faster, every solar business must operate optimally.
 
Poor decisions waste time and resources, and the planet can’t afford that – (nor can you!).
 
Sharing (anonymised, privacy-upheld) data with SunWiz leads to better decisions made by your business, better products offered by your suppliers, and a rapidly-growing industry that everyone benefits from.
 
That’s why your participation is noble – it benefits the planet, the solar industry, and your business.
 
Here’s how:

Benefitting Your Business

Each month, retailers opted-in to our data sharing arrangement receive Luminate SME, market intel designed to inform solar retailers prices, places, products, predictions, and players.

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Better Pricing

Helping retailers price optimally... and helping manufacturers understand their brand strength.

Better Products

Manufacturers use data about wattage & electrical characteristics of panels and inverters to develop and deliver products that are fit for our market.

Better Suppliers

Manufacturers use information about changes in market share to inform them whether their pricing and go-to-market strategy needs to be improved.

Better Manufacturer Loyalty

Concentrating manufacturer attention on keeping you as a customer and doing what it takes to earn more of your business.

Better Product Availability

Manufacturers and wholesalers use information about project proposal volumes to inform how much stock they need to allocate / import into the country/state. Your data is one of the many data sources used for this information.

Better Batteries

Helping drive battery uptake by informing trends on rates of sales conversion and PV-system attachment.

Plus helping batteries integrate better with inverters.

Here’s some examples of how your data feeds into our analyses, after first being cleansed of private information and then being combined with many other data sources.

As you can see:

Solar Retailers: Partnership Models & Benefits

STC Accreditation Codes (PVDxxx)

  1. Receive a personalized benchmark report of your market share, rank, and volume by state & segment.
  2. Become eligible for a SunWiz Top Volume Solar Retailer Award
  3. Appear on SunWiz’s authoritative Leaderboard, & capture the attention of all major suppliers

How: Send your STC Accreditation Codes (PVDxxxx) to data@sunwiz.com.au from your STC agent

Proposal Software Account Access

  1. Receive Luminate SME for free, covering price, lead volume, best-selling brands, target locations, installation volumes, retailer rankings.
  2. Join the solar industry acceleration movement

How: 

  • When we access your data, to ensure your identity and that of your customers is NEVER revealed, we:
    1. FIRST delete all private information (e.g. customer details & your company details), to anonymise your data 
    2. AND THEN aggregate (blend) it with hundreds of other accounts.
    3. AS WELL AS further blending data from many other sources, including government databases, websites, surveys, and other data partners.
  • Your data is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy,  and is securely hosted on Google Cloud servers, based in Australia.
  • You can instruct us to delete your data at any stage.
FieldUsed For
Dates project created, updated, soldMaster Timestamp, Proposal-to-sale delay
State, PostcodeLocalised analyses
Make & Model of Panel, Inverter, Battery, Air Source Heat Pump, EV ChargerMarket Share, Brand-specific Pricing, Brand Combinations, Equipment Characteristics
System Size: Total, Pre-existing + NewPV System Size, Upgrades & Replacements, Pricing, Relative Sizes of Panel/Inverter/Battery
Equipment technical characteristics including power & capacityTrends in Equipment Technical Characteristics (Wattages, Warranty, #phases, Etc)
Status of proposal (sold?)Proposal Conversion Rate, Optimal Pricing
System Price Total, Subsidy amountSystem Price; Revenue, Brand Price Premium
Equipment Costs and PricesComponent Costs, Component Prices & Margins
Payback Period (Years)Economic evaluation of technologies; demand forecasts
Pseudonyms for Project, System, OrganisationDe-identified project-level & system-level & organisation-level analysis

You can view a sample of practically everything we do at this page

Is my Data Safe?

Your privacy is of utmost importance to us at SunWiz. We have respected and protected user privacy since we started, and we guarantee that your data is a 100% safe with us and we are trusted by industry leaders across the board. 

your data is safe with SunWiz SunBiz Advisor
  • We will not sell your customer details as leads
  • In fact, we will never disclose any personal information, customer details, or identify your business to anyone else.
  • When we do compare business across the market, we do so without identifying anyone, at an aggregate level. You can verify this by downloading our sample report
  • You can terminate SunWiz’s access to your OpenSolar account, and your data is wiped from our secure server
  • Its all covered in full glorious detail in our Privacy Policy
  1. SunWiz has been entrusted by over 1400 leading solar retailers with details of over 60,000 customers, as the developer of PVsell.
  2. SunWiz is the only company trusted by leading battery manufacturers with confidential sales figures for our exclusive Battery Market Report, and we regularly handle confidential business data for a wide range of leading solar companies.
  3. Warwick Johnston has personally been elected or appointed to many positions of leadership, including the board of the Clean Energy Council and an industry representative to Solar Victoria.
  4. Personally, Warwick Johnston has received recommendations on his LinkedIn profile from numerous solar industry leaders including Nigel Morris, John Grimes, Mark Twidell, Geoff Bragg, Tristan Edis, Stefan Jarnasan and more.