New figures from the Clean Energy Council (CEC) show that 300,375 Australian homes and businesses installed rooftop solar units in 2024, delivering almost 3 GW worth of PV capacity. This includes 159,011 rooftop PV systems with a combined capacity of 1.6 GW that were installed during the last six months of the year.  

The CEC said it is the fifth consecutive year that installation figures have surpassed 300,000 units with more than four million rooftop PV systems and a cumulative total capacity of 25.5 GW of rooftop solar now in place across the country.  

The CEC’s biannual Rooftop Solar and Storage Report shows rooftop PV contributed 30,178 GWh, or 12.4%, of Australia’s total energy generation for 2024, up from 11.2% in 2023, and almost doubled from 6.5% in 2020.  While the year delivered significant milestones for rooftop solar, the annual installation rate was 10% lower than the previous year when 333,926 units were rolled out while the total installed capacity of almost 3 GW was 7% down on the 3.2 GW installed in 2023.

Source: pv magazine