{"id":54572,"date":"2021-10-06T06:08:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=54572"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:40:32","slug":"australia-solar-supply-mb2182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-solar-supply-mb2182\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Facing Solar Panel Supply Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-panel-prices.jpg\" alt=\"Solar panel prices in Australia\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-panel-prices.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-panel-prices-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-panel-prices-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-panel-prices-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Choice of good quality solar panels in Australia may soon become more limited and costly due to issues occurring beyond our shores.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Late last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/solar-manufacturing-majors-call-on-customers-to-delay-projects-amidst-supply-crisis\/\">PV-Tech reported<\/a> leading manufacturers Longi, JinkoSolar, Trina Solar, JA Solar and Risen Energy were warning rising costs for materials and shipping were threatening the industry. For example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-silicon-price-hike\/\">price of polysilicon remains high<\/a> and the cost of solar glass and adhesive films have also jumped.<\/p>\n<p>These warnings aren&#8217;t new &#8211; JinkoSolar has been talking about the issues for quite a while. But with China now also in the midst of what&#8217;s been called an <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6102765\/china-energy-coal-climate\/\">energy crisis<\/a> further complicating the situation, the five big players are asking the firms they supply to delay projects if possible; assumed to mean solar farm projects.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is now also impacting small-scale and commercial solar here in Australia. We became aware yesterday of a major Australian solar wholesaler being advised over the previous couple of days that many of its scheduled shipments had either been delayed or cancelled. This wasn&#8217;t just happening with one or two of its principal solar panel suppliers, but all of them.<\/p>\n<p>When supply doesn&#8217;t match demand, prices go up.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Prices In Australia &#8211; Interim Update<\/h2>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s been happening in Australia with the price of solar systems recently?<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australian-solar-prices-september21-mb2165\/\">Australian Solar Prices report in September<\/a>, while system costs have generally held up well over the last 12 months given the circumstances, this wasn&#8217;t necessarily going to remain the case.<\/p>\n<p>That report was based on the SolarQuotes&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/price-explorer\/\">Australian Solar Price Index<\/a>. As the month ticked over into October and the Index updated to include September, the following is what we&#8217;re seeing at this point in time. This is the average installed cost per watt for all solar power system sizes in all states, after any rebates and subsidies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/price-explorer\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54577 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-prices-per-watt-b.png\" alt=\"Solar systems cost per watt\" width=\"900\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-prices-per-watt-b.png 900w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-prices-per-watt-b-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-prices-per-watt-b-768x516.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cost per watt went up a little in August and has continued with a steeper rise for systems purchased in September; back to levels seen in August 2020. However, the Index is updated in real time and it&#8217;s still early in the month, so as more information is received about purchases in September, the situation could change.<\/p>\n<p>It will also vary state-to-state &#8211; for example, NSW figures are showing a slight decrease on cost per watt currently. But at this stage, what the Index&#8217;s national figure is indicating combined with what is being reported elsewhere means it&#8217;s a situation worth keeping close tabs on. SolarQuotes will publish an updated report on how September tracked on system costs towards the end of this month as we&#8217;ll have a lot more data to work with by then.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/cost\/\">cost of solar panels<\/a> rises further, they will remain a very good investment. But for Australians currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">considering solar power<\/a>, it might be a good time to pursue the idea and take advantage of stock installers may have left at cheaper prices.<\/p>\n<p>Pay special attention to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\">solar panels<\/a> noted in a system quote and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar-reviews\/\">do your research<\/a> as some installers may resort to lower-quality panels due to cost and supply issues. Also worth checking is SQ&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html#panelchart\">recommended panel brands<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it&#8217;s worth bearing in mind that the national subsidy (aka the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar rebate<\/a>&#8220;) will see another reduction at the beginning of next year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an ill wind that blows nobody any good as they say and if the situation in China continues for some time, it could provide a great opportunity for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/tindo-solar-review.html\"> Tindo Solar<\/a> &#8211; the only Australian manufacturer of solar panels currently recommended by SolarQuotes.<\/p>\n<p>Around this time last month, Tindo said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tindo-solar-factory-mb2143\/\">decommissioning of its current manufacturing plant<\/a> in Adelaide had begun and the company was awaiting arrival of equipment for the new facility, situated adjacent to the old plant. How this is progressing wasn&#8217;t clear at the time of publishing. No doubt the company is keen to get that cranking as soon as possible if not already up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choice of good quality solar panels in Australia may soon become more limited and costly due to issues occurring beyond our shores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":54573,"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-54572","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>Australia Facing Solar Panel Supply Crunch - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Choice of good quality solar panels in Australia may soon become more limited and costly due to issues occurring beyond our shores.\" \/>\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\/australia-solar-supply-mb2182\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australia Facing Solar Panel Supply Crunch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Choice of good quality solar panels in Australia may soon become more limited and costly due to issues occurring beyond our shores.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-solar-supply-mb2182\/\" \/>\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=\"2021-10-05T19:38:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-05T19:40:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/solar-panel-prices.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\\\/australia-solar-supply-mb2182\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/australia-solar-supply-mb2182\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Australia Facing Solar Panel Supply Crunch\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-05T19:38:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-05T19:40:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/australia-solar-supply-mb2182\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":679,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/australia-solar-supply-mb2182\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/solar-panel-prices.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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