Solar Quotes has been bought by Origin Energy - https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/solarquotes-origin/
Finn Peacock is still in charge, although with zero stake and Origin is saying that they'll let it run independently; but what happens after sale is finalised in anyone's guess. I do hope that it stays as informative and useful as it has been.
Yep, it will never be the same.
lol… Well, that should make it unbiased… I guess money speaks louder than conscience?
He got an offer that was hard to refuse.
cue the Origin solar plans taking over solarquotes
Solarquotes will now always recommend Origin as the top solar product, installer and the electricity plan. It’s easier to buy the recommendation system when you can’t compete with others.
"Origin is ending their residential solar and battery installs"
Haven't pull the trigger on solar due to living situation but read the site a lot over the years.
It was my go to site when I was researching. Insane amount of information on there. I've since gotten my 10kw system running over a year now and loving it! (Payback period another year to go :)
I am surprised Origin could make a business case out of it.
It's probably pretty easy, they're buying up a network of qualified installers and getting rid of all the cost of running their own solar install business. It's actually pretty smart.
I worked at a different power company, and the key goal of the non-generating side of the business was to get into network management. Getting people to install their own generation and storage then the power company steps in and manages it for them. No owning billions of dollars of assets, no having subsidise installing stuff everywhere, just get them locked into a virtual grid of shuffling electrons around.
Of course, the generating side wanted to burn as much coal as possible. That was their entire business. It was pretty boring.
It's probably pretty easy, they're buying up a network of qualified installers and getting rid of all the cost of running their own solar install business. It's actually pretty smart.
They ran their own install business?
I thought they would be smarter than that. Just have a network of qualified installers and they make the difference when customers go through their channel.
But you know corporate Australia. Mostly rent seekers.
The only extra cost to the solar installer who sends you a quote for solar through SolarQuotes is $55.
Price is now 65.
The best part is all the quotes are multiples of that more expensive.
Good on him for cashing in. Well played.
Yeah agreed. 16 years is a long innings and realistically wasn't going to find a buyer outside of an existing energy copmany.
Everyone with a golden goose gotta cash in for retirement at some point. Gotta do it when the sun is shining (pun intended).
Everyone swears by solar quotes but I used it and found the companies in my area suggested by them were not great. Seemed like a money based deal from the get go in my opinion
I had the same experience through the quote process, was not impressed. The website itself had some info so that was a plus
Lets be honest the solar industry had their fingers all through it. The whole thing was run on who paid the highest commission.
i decided to bypass them and went with one the the smaller indepedents who were half the price. Turns out they all use the same subcontractors anyway.
Zero issues.
The solar marketplace is littered with failed companies. It is probably smart for "solar quotes" operator to take the money - and run. The company which installed my solar (eco kinetics) & it's parent company (CBD solar) have both gone bust. Thankfully my solar is still running well after the warranty period expired.
RIP 🙏 🪦