Ain’t No Party Like a Solar Celebration Party!
Australia has cause for celebration because our one-millionth solar panel system was recently installed!
The milestone was reached with the help of price reductions and policy incentives. But what will the future hold for Solar?
With the help of analysing years gone by, it’s suggested that solar is only growing more lucrative. Over the past few months, record-high average system sizes occurred across Australia.
The latest Solar Hot Spots data reveals that the Victorian December economy mini-boom boosted solar purchases despite a reduction in incentives. Queensland also showed growth despite 44¢ Feed-in Tariff installations now representing less than a quarter of new installations.
SunWiz has also presented new data in regards to increasing solar sales:
Solar PV Market
- March saw 75MW of PV registered across Australia.
- 3kW systems have made a revival, and are the most popular sized systems in WA and NSW.
Solar Hot Spots
- The Top 10 Postcodes for installation volume in 2012 were from Queensland.
- Bundaberg topped the list with at least 9.35MW installed in 2012. Warwick Farm was NSW’s top spot (2.1MW), Happy Valley was SA’s (2.9MW), Hoppers Crossing topped Victoria (4.3MW), and Mandarah was #1 in WA (4.2MW)
- Parkes (NSW) unresponsive to the 3 to 2 multiplier reduction but setting records in Q1 2013.
Here’s to another million solar panels sold!
