Become a Smart Installer Patron

How to Support the Smart Installer Program

The Smart Installer Program provides a direct channel to Australia’s installer community – helping you build credibility, strengthen relationships, and grow your brand. We work with you to elevate your brand by providing expert promotional support, digital hosting, and event participation designed to amplify your message and extend your reach. Our goal is simple: to help you engage the right audience, with the right message, through the right channels.

Support Available to Sponsors and Patrons

SMART INSTALLER PATRON

Bundle all our services together, get premium and extended opportunities to present and build your brand by becoming a Smart Installer Patron. Includes premium presentation slots at all twelve roadshows, hosting of five courses on our eLearning Management System for twelve months, up to five EDMs, one webinar, five social media cross promotions and content development support.

SMART INSTALLER ROADSHOW SPONSORSHIP

Become a sponsor at up to 12 roadshow events each year with a speaking slot and product display at our event. Includes branding and social media cross promotion.
 

EDMs

Share your content and we’ll promote, produce and share a professional co-branded EDM to our smart installer database. Social media cross promotion included.

Webinars

Prepare your slides and messages and we’ll promote, produce and deliver a co-branded Webinar to our smart installer database. We’ll provide an MC, high profile guests and follow it up with online video content and social media cross promotion.

Hosted Digital Content

Collate all your digital training content and we’ll host it on our eLearning Management System for twelve months. Regular cross promotion included.

Member eMagazine Advertisment

Earn a free advertising spot in our quarterly member eMagazine.

Branding Possibilities

Brand Awareness

Your logo will feature on the smart installer landing page with a short bio and website link. Your logo and recognition for patronage will be included in all smart installer emails and be recognised at Smart installer events.

Promote

Opportunity to present on a Smart Installer webinar, be featured in “Patron Promo” EDMs when you launch new training, and join the annual Smart Installer Patron Prize promotion.

Educate & Train

Your courses hosted prominently on the Smart Installer LMS (up to five annually), with support to maximise CPD points and hands‑on help from senior training staff.

Engage

Promote your events in the Smart Installer Events Catalogue/Almanac to drive registrations and on‑the‑ground engagement.

We Thank Our Patrons

AC Solar Warehouse

AC Solar Warehouse is a leading Australian solar distributor, supplying the latest technologies from trusted brands. With in-house engineers, CEC-accredited designers, and product specialists, we support every aspect of system design and installation – Your job just got easier.

FoxESS

Fox ESS is a global leader in the development of inverter and energy storage solutions. Engineered by some of the world’s leading inverter and battery experts, our products are breaking new ground; offering customers the most advanced product features currently available, coupled with unrivalled performance and reliability.

GoodWe

GoodWe is a global leader in solar inverter and energy storage solutions, trusted by installers and system owners worldwide. With a strong presence in Australia, GoodWe delivers reliable, high-performance technology across residential, commercial and utility-scale projects. Known for its focus on quality, innovation and long-term support, GoodWe plays a key role in advancing clean energy systems that are built to last.

FranklinWH

FranklinWH Australia is the wholly owned subsidiary of FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc., a global energy storage manufacturer. In FranklinWH, the WH stands for ‘Whole Home’. It is a commitment, and a promise, that homeowners and installers alike are investing in more than just a battery. They’re investing in peace of mind. Buy once, buy right with FranklinWH.

What our patron says

"We're proud to be a founding Smart Installer Patron. It's a great way to demonstrate our commitment and reach thousands of installers through the Smart Energy Council's incredible reach."
Grant Behrendorff
Managing Director, AC Solar Warehouse

Become a
Smart Installer Patron

High impact. Lasting visibility. Meaningful reach. 

Align your brand with the Smart Installer Program and connect directly with thousands of qualified professionals through year-round exposure to Australia’s national largest installer network shaping Australia’s energy future.

Smart Stewardship

Chair: Darren Johannesen

Meeting Frequency: Every 12 Weeks

Sector Scope

  • Recyclers
  • PV Manufacturers
  • Product stewardship participants

Policy Scope

  • Stewardship policy
  • Recycling frameworks
  • Circular economy initiatives

Technology Scope

  • Solar
  • Batteries

Topics Scope

  • Recycling pathways
  • Product stewardship schemes
  • End-of-life management
  • Industry obligations
  • Sustainability initiatives

Smart Global

Chair: Robert Potter

Meeting Frequency: Every 12 Weeks

Sector Scope

  • Importers
  • Exporters
  • Investors
  • International projects

Policy Scope

  • International trade
  • Market entry
  • Export facilitation
  • Trade Tariff 

Technology Scope

  • Smart energy technologies
  • Climate technologies

Topics Scope

  • Renewable Energy Council Asia Pacific
  • Export opportunities
  • Trade missions
  • Global Climate
  • International partnerships
  • Investment opportunities

Smart Transport

Chair: Rhiannon Evans

Meeting Frequency: Every 12 Weeks

Sector Scope

  • Transport technology providers
  • Light and Heavy Electric Fleet operators
  • Charging infrastructure businesses

Policy Scope

  • EV policy
  • Charging infrastructure
  • Transport electrification
  • Network integration
  • Incentives 

Technology Scope

  • Electric vehicles
  • Charging infrastructure
  • Fleet technologies
  • Distribution Network

Topics Scope

  • Rapid Expansion
  • Interconnections
  • Regulations and Standards
  • V2X

Smart Manufacturing

Chair: Rod Scott

Meeting Frequency: Every 12 Weeks

Sector Scope

  • Local manufacturers
  • Technology developers
  • Component suppliers
  • Emerging technologies

Policy Scope

  • Supply Chain
  • R&D
  • Manufacturing Incentives
  • CEFC

Technology Scope

  • Solar
  • Storage
  • Electronics
  • Software
  • Critical materials

Topics Scope

  • Expanding local manufacturing
  • Export opportunities
  • Supply chains
  • Local content
  • Investment attraction
  • Industry capability

Smart Large-scale

Chair: Sohaib Mohammed

Meeting Frequency: Every 8 Weeks

Sector Scope

  • Large & utility scale developers
  • Asset owners
  • Investors
  • EPCs

Policy Scope

  • NEM Review
  • Capacity Investment Scheme
  • Planning Regulation

Technology Scope

  • Solar
  • Storage
  • Wind
  • Transmission

Topics Scope

  • Interconnection
  • Development
  • Financing
  • Energy Wholesaling
  • Planning Regulation

Smart Consumer

Chair: John Welch

Meeting Frequency: Every 8 Weeks

Sector Scope:

  • Installers
  • Retailers
  • Wholesales
  • Service providers

Policy Scope

  • Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Rebate programs
  • Accreditation
  • Local regulations

Technology Scope

  • Solar
  • Battery storage
  • Energy retail
  • Distributed network technologies

Topics Scope

  • Compliance obligations
  • Training and workforce issues
  • Regulations 
  • Consumer protection
  • Energy retail developments
  • Virtual Power Plants (VPP)
  • Industry best practice

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