{"id":21825,"date":"2018-05-29T14:19:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=21825"},"modified":"2018-09-10T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:59:48","slug":"the-good-solar-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/the-good-solar-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Solar Guide: 7 Steps To Tiny Bills For Australian Homeowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/good-solar-guide\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22367 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/good-solar-guide-order.png\" alt=\"Order the Good Solar Guide by Finn Peacock\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/good-solar-guide-order.png 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/good-solar-guide-order-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost 10 years ago, I sat down for 2 weeks in Brighton Public Library and put everything I knew about residential solar power systems into my battered old laptop. I used the free Wi-Fi to upload that information to a home-brewed website called SolarQuotes. The knowledge was picked up from working for the Energy Transformed Flagship at CSIRO combined with my broader background in electrical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, millions of people have visited the site; which has been continuously improved over the years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By answering tens of thousands of questions via email, blog comments, Facebook and even the good old telephone, I&#8217;ve learned what questions Australians have when buying solar and where they often slip up.\u00a0I&#8217;ve also learned why some people choose not to get solar power &#8211; even after receiving 3 good quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are skeptical of the benefits. Is solar power really a good investment?<\/li>\n<li>They are put off by spending thousands of dollars &#8211; and are unaware of low-cost finance options that often give positive cash flow.<\/li>\n<li>They are wary about buying a lemon from an industry with hundreds of solar panel brands available.<\/li>\n<li>They are worried they may choose a bad installer from the many installation companies vying for their business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although most of these questions and apprehensions are\u00a0covered somewhere on the\u00a0SolarQuotes website, I&#8217;ve increasingly sensed the need for a well structured, self-contained package of information that definitively lays out what Australians need to know to buy solar confidently and get their electricity bills down. Ideally in a format that you can curl up with on the couch (or throw at an unsolicited solar-selling doorknocker<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/the-good-solar-guide\/#en-21825-1' id='enref-21825-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(21825)'>1<\/a><\/sup>).<\/p>\n<p>But this time it didn&#8217;t take me 2 weeks. It has taken me 2 years<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/the-good-solar-guide\/#en-21825-2' id='enref-21825-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(21825)'>2<\/a><\/sup> to sit down and download all the solar information swirling around my head and on my website into a real bookstore book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quite an experience, and certainly a lot more involved than banging up a blog post. I&#8217;ve learned about structural edits, copy edits, typesetting ISBNs and publishing. The enforced discipline of publishing a real book has forced me to think about everything the average person needs to know about solar power and lay it out in a coherent structure that can be easily read without staring at a screen. \u00a0I&#8217;m really happy with the resulting fifty-odd thousand words, 205 pages and 47 illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>The Good Solar Guide was released on 14th June 2018 and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/good-solar-guide\/\">order the book here<\/a>. 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