Solar Quotes Blog

Back when I had long hair, solar was pretty basic, and so were the electricity supply, metering, and billing. It’s wistful thinking to imagine we’re going back to simpler times. But today, it makes sense to streamline and rein in your bills equally. Just getting your head around energy and the various ways we pay […]

Plug-in solar has moved a step closer in Australia, with federal, state and territory energy ministers agreeing to explore pathways for its safe deployment. The UK now allows approved systems, while New Zealand is also moving towards legalisation. But there’s an electrical safety problem SolarQuotes raised when we looked at balcony solar in 2024. Two […]

We’re launching our 2026 state installer awards in South Australia, where there’s a new number one in SolarQuotes’ annual rankings, knocking last year’s winner off the top spot. Here are the three installers SA customers rated highest in 2026. The winners were determined using a weighted calculation of customer reviews published on the SolarQuotes website. […]

The giant Everything Electric show returns to Sydney Showground this weekend, Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September, six months later than planned. The organisers pushed the March show back when the global EV market got the wobbles, then used the extra time to stack the program. They’re now expecting more than 40,000 visitors, over 100 […]

Peter Hannam quoted me in RenewEconomy on Friday, saying I expect there are hundreds of thousands of solar and battery systems out there that aren’t optimally installed or configured, some of them carrying real potential for dangerous outcomes. He ran that alongside what Chris Bowen had told parliament two days earlier, when Dan Tehan asked […]