Household solar boom back on track after severe weather and supply disruptions lead to 14% drop in capacity

December 2022 was third-busiest month on record for solar panel installation partly driven by spiking electricity prices

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When record rainfall caused flooding in south-east Queensland last February, Steve McLean's solar installers were kept off roofs, blowing a $60,000 hole in his firm's budget and setting back what might have been another record year for his business.

If we didn't do a system for five weeks, you can imagine that no one else did ... We got absolutely smashed in February and March," McLean, the owner of Gold Coast Solar Systems, said. If you take that number out of the marketplace, well, that was disastrous."