Even with huge political doubts and falling subsidies, solar is still the best choice. Figures are showing that the Australian people know that solar is the right way to go with 71MW’s of solar PV registered in Australia in December.

According to the latest SunWiz Consulting ‘Australian PV Market Insights’, the increase in commercial solar systems (which are 10kW’s and above) have increased the average solar system size to 4.82kW’s. Around 24% of the market is commercial solar systems over 10kW’s. Businesses have done the maths – solar will help bring their exorbitant power bills down. With most businesses operating during generation hours, it makes sense to try and produce power and use it rather than pay for expensive power from the grid all day long.

Once again, Queensland leads the solar charge with a total solar capacity installed in 2014 of 250MW. NSW and Vic followed with 170MW each and then WA and South Australia with 95MW each. New South Wales leads the way in commercial solar installations by a substantial margin.

Mackay postcode 4740 came in tops adding 5.9MW’s of capacity.

Residential solar power is likely to account for just less than 80% of market in 2014. However, Sunwiz believes that 2015 should see a reversal of roles – the trend of increases is expected to continue in the utility scale sector while residential systems become quite competitive.

With many big scale projects in the pipeline and waiting to completed, 2015 is likely to be a huge year for large solar farms. Warwick Johnston from Sunwiz agrees saying that, “The utility-scale sector will set records this year, as Flagships, Moree, Mugga Lane & OneSun are delivered…. and then you’ve got projects like Rio Tinto Weipa, Majura Park, Coober Pedy and other ARENA projects, plus CEFC investments.”