Yes, you're eligible for solar rebates provided you satisfy the following requirements:

• You should be the property owner, and you should have a combined household taxable income of less than $180,000 every financial year (based on their Australian Tax Office Notice of Assessment).

• You shouldn't have received a solar battery or Solar PV Rebate under the Victorian Solar Homes Program.

• The property should be valued under $3 million.

• You should not have an existing solar PV system or taken part in the rebate program.

To Calculate the size of the solar PV system required for your house, divide the average daily consumption mentioned on the first page of the electricity bill by 3.6 hours (Victoria has an average of 3.6 sunshine hours per day). Example if your daily average consumption is 18kW/day then 18/3.6 = 5kW (ideal system size).

The Clean Energy Council (CEC) promotes clean energy and helps to regulate the industry to ensure high standards.

A CEC (Clean Energy Council) accredited retailer must follow all of their standards. They are obliged to sell only products that have been certified by the Clean Energy Council. The Clean Energy Council actively oversees these accredited companies and conducts random audits to ensure best practices are followed and only approved products are being used for every installation. This also ensures the safety of the customers and does not void their home insurance policies.

Yes, that is possible. The CEC-accredited installers who also have Battery accreditation can AC couple and connect the battery to your existing solar PV system. That way if the customer has an old Solar PV system before the rebates schemes were available, they can still avail the battery rebate schemes in the current lot.

With the right system installed at your property and the correct use of solar PV / Energy storage system, the system owner can save upto 90% on their electricity bills.

Every customer is entitled to a federal rebate known as the STC. The arrangement is between the retailer and the federal government, and the funds are deposited directly into the account of the Solar PV retailer. This amount is deducted from the system price when preparing the formal quote.