Is information kept up to date? We rewrite hubs against official sources — the Clean Energy Regulator, energy.gov.au, the Clean Energy Council, Solar Accreditation Australia, AEMO, and state program sites such as Solar Victoria — and we treat incentive figures as things you must re-check, not as live widgets. When a source moves, send a note via Contact. We would rather a page be cautious and dated than precise and wrong.
What belongs on the about hub? Accountability: who publishes this, what the site is not, how heritage URLs were handled, and how corrections work. It is not a company brochure and not a catalogue of past commercial claims.
An independent Australian home-solar guide
This domain once hosted a more commercial lander. The Capes-tier rebuild is an editorial project: an independent guide for people trying to understand rooftop solar on Australian houses. We explain mechanisms. We cite agencies. We refuse to invent prices, rebate amounts, payback years, installer rankings, or testimonials.
Independence here means we are not paid to steer you to a particular panel, inverter, battery, retailer, or trade. If a sentence reads like a recommendation of a brand, we have failed and you should use Contact so we can strip it.
What we are not
We are not:
- a solar installer or designer
- an electricity retailer or aggregator
- a distribution network
- a government rebate office
- a certificate agent
- a marketplace that sells your details to “three local installers”
We therefore cannot confirm your eligibility, size your array, or tell you whether last quarter’s bill would improve. Those answers require a site, a licence, and official portals.
How the library is organised
The home hub holds the question, the energy-path diagram, and the map. Four long guides — how solar works, system types, batteries, and rebate basics — carry the depth. The FAQ is the due-diligence list. Disclaimer and Privacy are the legal rooms. Contact is the editorial inbox.
Heritage aliases such as /Lander.aspx, /our-solar-systems.html, /disclaimer.html, and /privacy.html redirect to these rooms. The content was rewritten. Archive text was not copied.
How we source
Primary sources are Australian public institutions with a job in this ecosystem:
- Clean Energy Regulator — SRES, STCs, rooftop solar eligibility, installer accreditation expectations for certificates
- energy.gov.au — consumer solar, choosing retailers and installers, installation-day guidance
- Clean Energy Council — consumer resources and approved-product context
- Solar Accreditation Australia — installer accreditation after the 2024 scheme transition described on energy.gov.au
- AEMO — NEM operations and the visibility of distributed PV
- State program sites — for local incentives that sit beside the federal scheme
Secondary sources (news, blogs, forums) can alert us that a rule moved. They are not what we cite as the rule.
How we handle money-adjacent topics
Anything that looks like a price is a hazard. STC market values move. Deeming periods step down. State programs open, cap, and close. Feed-in tariffs are retailer products. We describe the existence of rails and the verification sequence. We do not freeze a number that would be irresponsible the week after publish.
If a paragraph on this site ever states a rebate in dollars, treat it as an error and tell us.
Corrections and tone
Factual errors, broken official links, and accidental commercial tone are in scope for correction. Requests to “add my company to a ranking” are not, because we do not rank. Requests for personalised design are not, because we do not design.
Pages are written in Australian English, with answer-first questions so that a reader — or an answer engine — can lift the first sentence without taking a slogan with it.
Contacting the publisher
Use the form on Contact. It posts through FormSubmit to the editorial inbox. Do not send identification documents, bills, or meter data; we cannot process them safely or usefully.
If you are an official body with a source update, the same form is the right door.
This about page is the short constitution of the site. The long constitution is the disclaimer. The working method is: explain the machine, name the rails, send you to the agency that owns the rule.
Readers, not travellers — and not a booking desk
One of the questions this rebuild is written to answer is how the guide helps people who landed here from a search, a shared link, or an old lander URL. The help is literacy. We are not a tourism operator and we are not a travel magazine; “travellers” in an older question map still means readers moving through a decision, not people booking a tour. If you came hoping for a crew tomorrow, the honest redirect is Solar Accreditation Australia plus your state licensing register.
The home hub explains how the guides connect. This about hub explains why they are allowed to be slow. Speed is for installers with a scope of works. Caution is for publishers who refuse to invent a rebate.