{"id":27995,"date":"2019-02-18T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T20:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=27995"},"modified":"2019-02-18T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T20:19:06","slug":"approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC Flags Changes To Approved Solar Retailer Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cec-approved-retailer.jpg\" alt=\"CEC Approved Solar Retailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cec-approved-retailer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cec-approved-retailer-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cec-approved-retailer-768x405.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Changes to the Clean Energy Council&#8217;s Approved Solar Retailer Program will see suspended or cancelled participants publicly named.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The CEC&#8217;s Approved Solar Retailer program seeks to provide added assurance to solar buyers in Australia. Companies wanting to participate in the program are required to jump through a bunch of hoops, sign a Code of Conduct and pony up some extra cash to attain the status. You can learn more about the differences between CEC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/cec-installers-retailers-members\/\">accredited installers, approved retailers and members here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The program has grown rapidly over the past year. As at January 31, 244 applications had been approved out of 449 submitted, and 233 Approved Solar Retailers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solaraccreditation.com.au\/retailers\/approved-solar-retailers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the Clean Energy Council announced the program&#8217;s complaints procedure has been revised and these changes will be implemented beginning on March 4 this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The new procedure is tougher on retailers who are doing the wrong thing,&#8221; said the CEC in its latest Installer News. &#8220;This change gives greater transparency around compliance with the Code and is a tough but fair way to address non-compliance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Suspended\/Cancelled Retailers To Be Publicly Named<\/h2>\n<p>The Council says the changes include making it easier to suspend or cancel program participants that breach the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solaraccreditation.com.au\/dam\/solar-accred\/retailers\/code-of-conduct\/Solar-PV-Retailer-Code-of-Conduct\/Solar-Retailer-Code-of-Conduct-Sept-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code of Conduct<\/a>. Another major change is retailer suspensions and cancellations will be permanently listed on the Approved Solar Retailer website.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This evolution of the program is another step in contributing to keeping the crap out of the industry and better protecting consumers,&#8221; states the CEC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently, 14 complaints are being investigated by the Code Administrator. These relate to allegations of either misleading marketing and advertising, non-compliant workmanship, poor after-sales service, quoting practices, terms and conditions or unethical behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s little detail on signatories that have resigned from or been removed from the program, other than that the number was 11 as at January 31 according to the CEC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solaraccreditation.com.au\/retailers\/statistics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports and statistics<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h2>Not The Be-All And End-All Of Getting Good Solar<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/good-solar-guide\/finding-installers\/\">As mentioned<\/a> in The Good Solar Guide, there are thousands of solar businesses in Australia that are not Clean Energy Council Approved Solar Retailers, some of which are excellent operators. And while very useful to solar buyers doing their due diligence, the program isn&#8217;t infallible. For these reasons, it&#8217;s a good idea for prospective solar power system purchasers to also check out SQ&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/\">solar installer reviews<\/a> while doing their research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the Clean Energy Council&#8217;s Approved Solar Retailer Program will see suspended or cancelled participants publicly named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CEC Flags Changes To Approved Solar Retailer Program<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Changes to the Clean Energy Council&#039;s Approved Solar Retailer Program will see suspended or cancelled participants publicly named.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CEC Flags Changes To Approved Solar Retailer Program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Changes to the Clean Energy Council&#039;s Approved Solar Retailer Program will see suspended or cancelled participants publicly named.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-17T20:15:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-02-17T20:19:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cec-approved-retailer.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"422\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"CEC Flags Changes To Approved Solar Retailer Program\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-17T20:15:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-02-17T20:19:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":402,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/approved-solar-retailer-changes-mb0942\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/02\\\/cec-approved-retailer.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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