{"id":95273,"date":"2025-10-18T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=95273"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:22:02","slug":"empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg\" alt=\"A woman looking at a quote.\" width=\"1547\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg 1547w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes-1024x533.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes-1536x799.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1547px) 100vw, 1547px\" \/>I was talking to a doctor who does those big-ticket &#8220;executive medicals&#8221; the other day. Think $2,000, three-hour deep dives that cover everything from fitness to bloodwork to mental health. He said it was sad how many people with financial success tell him they come home to an empty penthouse every night. They achieved financial and professional success at the cost of their happiness.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That stuck with me. Because when I&#8217;m asked to analyse solar or battery quotes, almost nobody asks: which one will make me happiest? It&#8217;s always dollars, specs, kilowatts.<\/p>\n<h2>What Really Matters<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happiness looks like for me when I&#8217;m electrifying my home:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dealing with a salesperson who genuinely understands the technology they are selling.<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with a local installer who knows their craft.<\/li>\n<li>Learning from the expert the best way to use a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/dont-ignore-solar-monitoring\/\">monitoring and control app.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tesla-powerwall-best-feature\/\">A snappy, beautiful app<\/a> that takes seconds, not minutes, to update energy flows.<\/li>\n<li>Cable tray (yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-array-cabling\/\">neat cabling<\/a> makes me unreasonably happy).<\/li>\n<li>Accurate, well-drawn Single Line Diagrams of what&#8217;s been installed.<\/li>\n<li>An EV that charges on 100% solar automagically. Ideally at three-phase speeds when it&#8217;s sunny enough.<\/li>\n<li>Oversized solar that kicks in as soon as the sun rises.<\/li>\n<li>Oversized solar that keeps powering my house as late into the evening as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Plenty of solar energy on an overcast day.<\/li>\n<li>A house lit up like a Christmas tree when the suburb is blacked out.<\/li>\n<li>Emails every quarter advising me on the health of my system.<\/li>\n<li>Businesses that proactively follow up with me years later to check everything is working OK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen a quote that itemises these &#8211; or anything like them. 99% are just pro forma Pylon or OpenSolar<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#en-95273-1' id='enref-95273-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(95273)'>1<\/a><\/sup> lists of brands, kW, kWh and dollars.<\/p>\n<h2>Spreadsheets Instead of Solutions<\/h2>\n<p>Retailers love to say they&#8217;re selling &#8220;solutions,&#8221; but most aren&#8217;t even trying. They&#8217;re selling spreadsheets via soulless machine-generated quotes. But what wins people over &#8211; and keeps them happy for decades &#8211; are the small daily wins that never make it onto the quote.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, the system that keeps the customer smiling is the one they&#8217;ll brag about, defend, and enjoy using. If retailers want customers to stop treating solar like a commodity, they need to start selling the lived benefits instead of the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>If a solar company gets this right, the proprietor might not be funding a penthouse in the city. Cheap and oversized items will always sell faster. But they might build a solid business that pays for a good family home, and have a long list of genuinely satisfied local customers. That beats rattling around an empty penthouse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phase Shift is a weekly opinion column by SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock. Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/weekly-newsletter.html\">SolarQuotes\u2019 free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get it emailed to your inbox each week along with our other home electrification coverage.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a doctor who does those big-ticket &#8220;executive medicals&#8221; the other day. Think $2,000, three-hour deep dives that cover everything from fitness to bloodwork to mental health. He said it was sad how many people with financial success tell him they come home to an empty penthouse every night. They achieved financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95276,"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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-panels-2","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>Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Quotes for solar and batteries always focus on dollars, specs, kilowatts. They forget the things that really make customers happy.\" \/>\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\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quotes for solar and batteries always focus on dollars, specs, kilowatts. They forget the things that really make customers happy.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-10-17T21:35:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-19T03:22:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1547\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"805\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Finn Peacock\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@FinnPeacock\" \/>\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\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Finn Peacock\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/495c35fb3086e6ef93220dcf2472b178\"},\"headline\":\"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-17T21:35:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-19T03:22:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":493,\"commentCount\":17,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Solar Panels\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/\",\"name\":\"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-17T21:35:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-19T03:22:02+00:00\",\"description\":\"Quotes for solar and batteries always focus on dollars, specs, kilowatts. They forget the things that really make customers happy.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg\",\"width\":1547,\"height\":805,\"caption\":\"A woman looking at a quote.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Blog\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Solar Panels\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/solar-panels-2\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"SolarQuotes Blog\",\"description\":\"An independent reckoning of the Aussie solar scene\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"SolarQuotes\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/solarquotes-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/solarquotes-logo.png\",\"width\":592,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"SolarQuotes\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/SolarQuotes\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/solar_quotes\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/solarquotes\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/au.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/solarquotes\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/SolarQuotesAustralia\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/495c35fb3086e6ef93220dcf2472b178\",\"name\":\"Finn Peacock\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6416cde752d8e0b695acfadb239ba7b7026ae219306ca29f9eb28780087cbcbf?s=96&d=monsterid&r=r\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6416cde752d8e0b695acfadb239ba7b7026ae219306ca29f9eb28780087cbcbf?s=96&d=monsterid&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6416cde752d8e0b695acfadb239ba7b7026ae219306ca29f9eb28780087cbcbf?s=96&d=monsterid&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Finn Peacock\"},\"description\":\"I'm a Chartered Electrical Engineer, Solar and Energy Efficiency nut, dad, and the founder of SolarQuotes.com.au. I started SolarQuotes in 2009 and the SolarQuotes blog in 2013 with the belief that it\u2019s more important to be truthful and objective than popular. My last \\\"real job\\\" was working for the CSIRO in their renewable energy division. Since 2009, I\u2019ve helped over 800,000 Aussies get quotes for solar from installers I trust. Read my full bio.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/FinnPeacock\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes","description":"Quotes for solar and batteries always focus on dollars, specs, kilowatts. They forget the things that really make customers happy.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes","og_description":"Quotes for solar and batteries always focus on dollars, specs, kilowatts. They forget the things that really make customers happy.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/","og_site_name":"SolarQuotes Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/","article_published_time":"2025-10-17T21:35:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-10-19T03:22:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1547,"height":805,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Finn Peacock","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@FinnPeacock","twitter_site":"@solar_quotes","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/"},"author":{"name":"Finn Peacock","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/495c35fb3086e6ef93220dcf2472b178"},"headline":"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes","datePublished":"2025-10-17T21:35:30+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-19T03:22:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/"},"wordCount":493,"commentCount":17,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg","articleSection":["Solar Panels"],"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/","url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/","name":"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg","datePublished":"2025-10-17T21:35:30+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-19T03:22:02+00:00","description":"Quotes for solar and batteries always focus on dollars, specs, kilowatts. They forget the things that really make customers happy.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg","width":1547,"height":805,"caption":"A woman looking at a quote."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/empty-penthouses-and-empty-quotes\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Solar Panels","item":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-panels-2\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Empty Penthouses and Empty Quotes"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/","name":"SolarQuotes Blog","description":"An independent reckoning of the Aussie solar scene","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization","name":"SolarQuotes","url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/solarquotes-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/solarquotes-logo.png","width":592,"height":600,"caption":"SolarQuotes"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/","https:\/\/x.com\/solar_quotes","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/solarquotes\/","https:\/\/au.linkedin.com\/company\/solarquotes","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SolarQuotesAustralia"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/495c35fb3086e6ef93220dcf2472b178","name":"Finn Peacock","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6416cde752d8e0b695acfadb239ba7b7026ae219306ca29f9eb28780087cbcbf?s=96&d=monsterid&r=r","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6416cde752d8e0b695acfadb239ba7b7026ae219306ca29f9eb28780087cbcbf?s=96&d=monsterid&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6416cde752d8e0b695acfadb239ba7b7026ae219306ca29f9eb28780087cbcbf?s=96&d=monsterid&r=r","caption":"Finn Peacock"},"description":"I'm a Chartered Electrical Engineer, Solar and Energy Efficiency nut, dad, and the founder of SolarQuotes.com.au. I started SolarQuotes in 2009 and the SolarQuotes blog in 2013 with the belief that it\u2019s more important to be truthful and objective than popular. My last \"real job\" was working for the CSIRO in their renewable energy division. Since 2009, I\u2019ve helped over 800,000 Aussies get quotes for solar from installers I trust. Read my full bio.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/","https:\/\/x.com\/FinnPeacock"],"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/missing-details-in-quotes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2FF2s-oMF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37691,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/electric-garbage-truck-mb1420\/","url_meta":{"origin":95273,"position":0},"title":"SA&#8217;s First Electric Garbage Truck Doing The Rounds","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"February 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"What's said to be South Australia\u2019s first zero-emissions electric-powered kerbside garbage and recycling collection truck went into service in Adelaide last week. The truck was supplied by Queensland-headquartered Superior Pak and uses drivetrain technology from Victoria's SEA Electric, which is enjoying significant success with its commercial EV solutions both locally\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General Solar &amp; Storage News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General Solar &amp; Storage News","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-battery-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Electric waste collection truck","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/electric-garbage-truck.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/electric-garbage-truck.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/electric-garbage-truck.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/electric-garbage-truck.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/electric-garbage-truck.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11135,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-quotes-milestone-mb0028\/","url_meta":{"origin":95273,"position":1},"title":"SolarQuotes Reaches Major Milestone","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"May 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"May 9, 2017 - Adelaide, Australia. On Saturday evening, the quote counter on popular Australian solar power resources site SolarQuotes ticked over to reach 300,000. Since the site was launched in 2009, more than 300,000 Australians from 2,649 postcodes across the nation have registered with the free service to receive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Announcements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"300,000 PV Quotes","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/solar-power-quotes.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/solar-power-quotes.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/solar-power-quotes.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10756,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\/","url_meta":{"origin":95273,"position":2},"title":"Solar Hot Water Subsidies For Victorians","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"April 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Households and businesses in Victoria can still take advantage of added incentives for upgrading their gas and electric hot water systems to solar units. Heating water is the second largest energy guzzler in a typical Australian home, so it makes good financial sense to take steps to minimize the cost\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General Solar &amp; Storage News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General Solar &amp; Storage News","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-battery-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Solar hot water subsidies in Victoria","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/solar-hot-water-subsidies.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/solar-hot-water-subsidies.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/solar-hot-water-subsidies.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62900,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-battery-rebate-mb2525\/","url_meta":{"origin":95273,"position":3},"title":"Final Days For Higher Solar Battery Rebate In Victoria","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"June 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Victoria's solar battery rebate will see a significant reduction next week; but take a deep breath before racing off to buy a home battery. Currently the rebate - actually a point of sale discount - is worth up to a maximum of $3,500. From Friday July 1, it will drop\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General Solar &amp; Storage News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General Solar &amp; Storage News","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-battery-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Victoria home battery rebate","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/victoria-battery-rebate.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/victoria-battery-rebate.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/victoria-battery-rebate.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/victoria-battery-rebate.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/victoria-battery-rebate.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3927,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/ret-axed-happens-solar-rebate\/","url_meta":{"origin":95273,"position":4},"title":"Is Abbott about to axe the Solar Rebate (and push solar prices through the roof) ?","author":"Finn Peacock","date":"August 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I woke up this morning to a beautiful spring day. Only to see an inbox full of emails telling me that, according to the Australian Financial Review, Tony Abbott has already decided to scrap the Renewable Energy Target (RET) no matter what his review panel advises. Bummer! Let's\u00a0see what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Policy","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-policy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"tony abbott and renewables","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/abbott-renewables.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/abbott-renewables.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/abbott-renewables.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":29449,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vic-solar-homes-rebate-mb1008\/","url_meta":{"origin":95273,"position":5},"title":"Victoria&#8217;s Solar Homes Rebate Maxing Out &#8211; But Don&#8217;t Panic","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"April 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It was announced yesterday Solar Victoria will accept a final 2,000 applications for the Solar Homes Package rebate this financial year - but it will restart on July 1. --- UPDATE April 12: Solar Victoria announced early this morning the program for 2018-19 is now fully subscribed. Solar Victoria says\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General Solar &amp; Storage News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General Solar &amp; Storage News","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-battery-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Solar Victoria rebates","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/solar-victoria-rebates.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/solar-victoria-rebates.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/solar-victoria-rebates.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/solar-victoria-rebates.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/solar-victoria-rebates.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95294,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95273\/revisions\/95294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}