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Solar Installers · Victoria

A rebate shortlists solar installers. The customer never does.

Most Victorian buyers looking at solar are chasing a rebate, and that rebate does not pay out to just anyone who can do the work well. It only pays a business holding an electrical licence to carry out the wiring and a separate accreditation to earn the certificates the rebate is actually built on, both at once. Miss either half and a licensed, capable electrician is simply not on the list a rebate-seeking search resolves to. That is not the customer weighing up a shortlist. It is a scheme deciding the shortlist before the customer ever opens a search.

A rooftop-only system near $3,500 and a combined panel-and-battery install closer to $13,000 fail the exact same way if either credential is missing, whatever the job's actual size. We build for installers working Geelong's new estates through to reroofs and switchboards across Melbourne, on the one job this trade's website has to do. Say plainly, fast, that both boxes are ticked, before a rebate-seeking search moves on to whoever answers that question first.

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An isometric clay-style diorama of a solar installer securing panel rails to a pitched roof, an accreditation card and an electrical safety certificate laid out on the scaffolding beside a battery unit and cabling running down toward a switchboard
The whole argument

Two separate things have to hold at once. One rebate pays only there.

Neither credential alone gets a business onto a rebate-seeking customer's shortlist. Both have to hold, for the same business, at the same time.

Electrician's (A Grade) licence
Solar accreditation
Eligible for the rebate

Government-issued, and the licence the electrical work itself has always needed to be lawful, whether or not a rebate is involved.

Run by an industry body, not the licensing regulator, and needed to earn the certificates a rebate is actually built on.

Miss either half and the business is not simply a weaker option among several. It is invisible to a customer whose search is already filtered by the scheme, before a single quote gets compared.

What we build

Five things built for how a solar installer actually gets hired

Nothing here assumes the customer is running the shortlist alone.

Custom websites

A rebate-seeking customer wants both credentials stated plainly, fast, before they check anywhere else. Recent finished rooftops and a clear service area sit alongside that, not buried under it.

How we build these

Local SEO for solar installers

Cost-shaped searches make up the biggest slice of this trade's demand, well ahead of any bare "near me" phrase. Built around what a rebate-comparing buyer actually types, suburb by suburb.

SEO and local search

Google Business Profile for solar installers

Often the first thing a rebate-seeking search actually opens, with reviews, recent photos and whether the listing still looks run all visible at once. Claimed properly and kept current, so it isn't what costs a business its place on a shortlist.

Google Business Profile management

AI automation

A quote that goes quiet is the real leak here, not a missed call, especially once a customer's own year-end deadline for the larger subsidy starts closing in. Follow-ups run on their own schedule so a genuine enquiry doesn't cool off waiting on someone to remember it.

How the automation works

Back-office support

A quoted discount that assumed one certificate price and gets traded at another is what actually erodes this trade's margin, not a missed enquiry. Quotes and invoicing pull from the same real figures, not a guess made at booking time.

Back office support
A calendar deadline, not a weather one

A solar installer's busy quarter is set by a scheme's calendar, not the sun

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The mechanism itself is sourced precisely. The federal scheme's own certificate entitlement steps down once a year, on the turn of the calendar, not on any particular date inside it. Finishing a job before that turnover, rather than after, is our own read of the pressure that puts on an installer's own booking calendar. The source names the mechanism. It does not name a month.

Certificate entitlement mechanism per Clean Energy Regulator (a federal government statutory authority, not a Victorian body). Verified 31 August 2026.

Licensed, and something extra on top

One licence covers a solar installer's wiring. It doesn't cover the rebate.

Perform electrical installation work in Victoria without supervision, as an employee. Energy Safe Victoria's own industry guidance classes electrical work on any portion of a solar system (a new installation or a rectification) as Prescribed Electrical Installation work, the same category of work this licence already covers; solar carries no separate, lower credential of its own. A second, separate credential covers actually contracting that work for profit, on top of the licence itself: Contract electrical installation work for profit or reward (including solar PV and battery installs, as Prescribed Electrical Installation work), required in addition to an A Grade licence for a self-employed installer or an installation business, as distinct from an employed licence-holder.

Named by the Energy Safe Victoria. Verified 31 August 2026.

The half most often missed

The accreditation half answers to an industry body, not the regulator above

An electrical licence proves the wiring itself is lawful. It says nothing about whether the certificates the rebate is actually built on can be claimed. That second half is run by an industry body appointed to operate the scheme, not the government regulator the licence answers to.

Being unaccredited isn't, on its own, a reason the work can't lawfully be carried out. It's a reason the rebate can't be claimed on it, which for most Victorian buyers has much the same practical effect. An otherwise capable business simply will not turn up in a rebate-seeking search.

Named by Solar Victoria, Victorian Government (Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action). Verified 31 August 2026.

Been burned before?

Three things we won't do

Every one of these is something we commit to, not a sales line.

01

Your ABN owns the win, not us

From the day it goes live, your own ABN is what the domain, the build and the listing are registered against. Leaving costs nothing to untangle, because none of it was ever tangled into ours to begin with.

02

No contract timed to the year-end rush

Nothing here runs on a fixed term built to carry you through the pre-new-year push and quietly renew once the quiet months start. A written note ends it, in any month, at no extra cost.

03

We can't get a business past the accreditation gate

A website makes an already-eligible business easy to find and easy to trust once found. It cannot substitute for either credential this page's whole argument turns on, and we won't imply otherwise.

A solar installer checking a panel's output against scaffolding-mounted paperwork
Worth ten minutes

Whether a moving certificate price already ate the job's margin

Common industry practice, not anything a regulator sets, is to discount a job up front by roughly what the year's certificates are expected to be worth once traded. If that certificate's market price moves before the job is actually finished, the discount already locked into the quote can eat margin nobody priced for. Between a $3,500 rooftop-only system and a $13,000 panel-and-battery install, that gap moves a lot, so run the real figures rather than guessing at an average.

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Checkable, the same way the credentials are

A real, trading company, easy to check before a deposit changes hands

Delta Infotech Pty Ltd has traded since 2021 from a street address anyone can look up in the time it takes to shortlist an installer.

ABN
87 651 729 850
Where we are
30 Flagstaff St, Armstrong Creek VIC 3217
Trading since
2021
Before you hire us

Questions solar installers ask before choosing a web agency

Does my business need to be accredited for a customer's rebate to actually pay out?

Yes, alongside the electrical licence, and it's worth stating plainly rather than assuming a customer already knows it. A rebate-seeking customer's search is already filtered to businesses holding both, before they ever compare a quote, so leaving either credential unstated on a website is the same as leaving it off the shortlist.

Is the accreditation still run by the same body it used to be?

No, and this is worth correcting rather than avoiding. The operator handed accreditation over to a different scheme operator some time ago. A search for the old operator's name still happens regularly, but naming it on a live business's own website would put an outdated fact in front of a customer checking for exactly this.

Why does the calendar year my system is installed in actually matter?

Because the certificates a rebate is built on step down in value once a year, on the turn of the calendar, not on any specific date inside it. A job finished before the year turns over earns a bigger entitlement than the identical job finished just after. That's the source's own mechanism, not a sales deadline we invented.

What does a solar rebate in Victoria actually require, in plain terms?

Two credentials on the installer's side, both held at once, plus the system itself meeting the usual electrical safety requirements. The exact dollar value of any rebate is the government's own figure to state and to change, not something we'll quote on your behalf, but the credential requirement itself doesn't move with it.

Who owns our website and Google Business Profile once it's built?

Your own ABN, from day one. The domain, the site and the listing never sit under Delta's name, so there's nothing to chase back if you move on.

Is there a lock-in contract?

No. It runs month to month, and a note in writing ends it whenever suits, with no exit fee attached.

Who else this business's customers are already talking to

The trades whose work sits next to a solar install

A switchboard often needs upgrading before an inverter goes anywhere near it. A dying air conditioner is frequently the reason someone looks at solar in the first place.

Electricians

The same practise licence and the same second credential to contract the work for profit sit underneath both trades, the exact overlap this page's own argument turns on.

See the electrician page

Air Conditioning

Comes up in the same conversation more often than either trade expects, usually once someone has already seen what running a system costs on a summer power bill.

See the air conditioning technician page

Roofers

A rooftop array only goes up once the roof underneath it is sound, so a roofer's own read on the structure often comes before a single panel gets fixed to a rafter.

See the roofer page

Send through what's already live for your business

Call, or fill in the enquiry form below with whatever you've already got online. We'll give it an honest read against both halves this page argues matter, the licence and the accreditation, before you spend anything closing a gap it finds.

We build the same way whether the roof going up is on a new estate in Geelong or an older reroof and switchboard upgrade across Melbourne. Neither credential above cares which postcode the job is in.

+61 470 344 729 contact@deltainfotech.com.au 30 Flagstaff St, Armstrong Creek VIC 3217
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