Solar Accreditation Australia (SAA)
One national installer accreditation, recognised everywhere — the half of the partial-national pattern that rooftop solar got right.
Responsibilities
- Accredit solar PV and battery installers and designers
- Maintain accreditation standards and continuing professional development
Accreditation is national and is a condition of the SRES subsidy, including for the Cheaper Home Batteries Program, where installation must be undertaken by or supervised on site by an SAA-accredited battery installer.
So rooftop solar has one national installer accreditation, one national inverter standard and one national subsidy. What it does not have is a common connection process or a common export rule — those belong to the distribution networks and, for emergency curtailment, to five separate jurisdictional regimes commencing across six years. See One inverter standard, one accreditation, one subsidy — and five emergency backstops across six years.
Electrical licensing itself remains state-based, which is the ordinary occupational licensing problem recorded in Finish automatic mutual recognition of occupational licences.
Where this body appears in a process
Every point at which Solar Accreditation Australia can hold something up, and why.
| Process | Step | Why it waits | Clock | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A household installs rooftop solar and is permitted to export | Quote from an accredited installer application | applicant | — | 14 |
