S2E8 - United Energy, Powercor and CitiPower

Season 2, Episode 8 · Released 11 April 2025 · 1 hr 17 min

Backstop Breakdown: United Energy, Powercor, CitiPower Respond

This week on Solar Sidekicks, Pat and Lauren are joined by Charmaine Volpe and Andrew Bailey from United Energy, Powercor and CityPower for a deep-dive into Victoria’s Emergency Backstop Mechanism. What went wrong, what’s improving, and why it matters.

Charmaine and Andrew open up about the rollout headaches, the harsh realities of implementation, and what they’ve learned from thousands of installer calls. We dig into compliance, installer frustrations, and how DNSPs are tackling the solar surge head-on—plus, Lauren shares a few stories from the frontlines.

It’s an honest, insightful, and surprisingly optimistic look at one of the biggest shakeups in solar. If you’re an installer, a manufacturer, or just trying to keep your solar game strong, this one’s essential.