{"id":37639,"date":"2020-02-24T05:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=37639"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:26:18","slug":"solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Scammers On The Prowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-scam.jpg\" alt=\"Solar energy scams\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-scam.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-scam-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-scam-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-scam-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Solar shysters are reportedly doing the rounds in Echuca, Victoria, and across the border in New South Wales an elderly woman had her purse stolen by a fake solar salesperson.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First to Victoria, where the Riverine Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverineherald.com.au\/news\/2020\/02\/21\/1048314\/dont-get-burnt-in-the-solar-scam\">reports<\/a> a shifty solar salesperson attempted to get an Echuca solar power system owner to participate in some feed-in tariff dodginess.<\/p>\n<p>The home already had solar panels installed and the owner was still benefiting from the legacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/vic\/\">Victorian solar feed-in tariff<\/a>.\u00a0 Victorians who applied to install rooftop solar from late 2009 to the end of 2011 were able to secure a whopping feed-in tariff of 60 cents a kilowatt-hour, a rate that applies until 2024.<\/p>\n<p>One of the conditions of keeping the 60c feed-in tariff is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.vic.gov.au\/households\/solar-premium-feed-in-tariff\">extra solar panels cannot be added<\/a> to these systems. If that occurs, the FiT is reduced to whatever the current rate is, which is 12 cents per kilowatt- hour minimum (single rate).<\/p>\n<p>According to the Echuca homeowner, a solar salesperson visiting his house said he could add an extra seven panels for $4,000. Given this would likely be only around 2.5kW at best, it was pretty pricey for starters. It wasn&#8217;t mentioned if this involved an inverter upgrade, or this perhaps being a separate system.<\/p>\n<p>What was certainly on the nose was the salesperson also allegedly stated the customer could keep his higher feed-in tariff as long as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/grid-connection\/\">distributed network service provider<\/a> wasn&#8217;t informed of the additional panels &#8211; a pretty ridiculous claim to make. The good news is the homeowner tweaked to the shonkiness and didn&#8217;t proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The take-home message from this situation is that if you&#8217;re being sold solar power and something doesn&#8217;t feel right &#8211; go with your instincts.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Scoundrel Swindles Senior<\/h2>\n<p>Over the border in New South Wales, an 86 year old woman was recently the victim of a fake solar salesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Illawarra Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police.nsw.gov.au\/news\/news_article?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGODMxMzcuaHRtbCZhbGw9MQ%3D%3D\">allege<\/a> the woman had her purse stolen earlier this month after letting a man claiming to be a solar panel salesman inside her Oak Flats home.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more good news here with police arresting a 30-year-old man in connection to the incident last Thursday, who was charged with three counts of obtain financial advantage by deception. It&#8217;s great he was caught, but what an awful experience for the woman to have been subjected to.<\/p>\n<p>While the perpetrator may not have anything to do with the solar industry, it&#8217;s just another good reason to be very wary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/door-door-solar-sales-know-rights\/\">door-to-door solar sales<\/a>, or door-to-door anything for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up some tips on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/good-solar-guide\/finding-installers\/\">how to find a good solar installer<\/a>, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/good-solar-guide\/contents\/\">Good Solar Guide<\/a> &#8211; free to read online in its entirety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar shysters are reportedly doing the rounds in Echuca, Victoria, and across the border in New South Wales an elderly woman had her purse stolen by a fake solar salesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":37641,"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-37639","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 v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Solar Scammers On The Prowl - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Solar shysters are doing the rounds in Echuca, and across the border in New South Wales an elderly woman had her purse stolen by a fake solar salesperson.\" \/>\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\/solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solar Scammers On The Prowl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Solar shysters are doing the rounds in Echuca, and across the border in New South Wales an elderly woman had her purse stolen by a fake solar salesperson.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-02-23T19:11:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-06T04:26:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-scam.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\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\/solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Solar Scammers On The Prowl\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-23T19:11:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-06T04:26:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417\/\"},\"wordCount\":452,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-scammers-vic-nsw-mb1417\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-scam.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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