What you need to know about CEC Approved Retailers.
Formally it was very hard to become an approved solar retailer. In doing so, they were ensuring the customers that were purchased from an approved solar retailer supplier were getting a good outcome.
When GEM Energy became an approved solar retailer, we already had a practice that was very similar, so it wasn’t much of a transition for us. Merely it was just a recognition of the quality approached we were already taking.
So, if you want to look at approved solar retailers as something reliable, I would say the first 50 approved solar retailers on the list provided by the Clean Energy Council are brought on in that fashion. Previous solar retailers argued that it was detrimental to their business to not be recognised as an approved solar retailer and to be excluded from that and we’re literally seeing some of the dodgiest operators in the marketing now being approved solar retailers. This is quite disheartening for the companies that are doing it well but that’s just the way things are at the moment.
It’s not the status that it once was but if you did look into it you could see the original approved solar retailers would still have had to have gone through a stringent process to become an approved solar retailer.