Our Story

Our milestones

We’re a passionate team of solar experts with a history of innovation in the industry. With over 6,500 customers joining the ShineHub family to date, how did we get here? 

2016

We set out with a mission to change the industry with a reimagined online customer experience and focus on making solar batteries and Virtual Power Plants accessible to Australians

2017

We started executing our vision of an online order platform designed to redefine how Australian shoppers bought and installed solar and battery systems

2018

We travelled. A lot. We did bulk buys around the country helping us grow and fund our mission to change how people bought solar

2019

We activated people power. We saw the bright future ahead in Virtual Power Plants and set about developing our cloud based Virtual Power Plant to help our customers maximise savings from their battery and build community wide energy resiliency

2020

Our Community VPP was a hit with our customers and grid operators alike. Following numerous rigorous trials our VPP fast became the most sophisticated in the industry. It was also the first VPP to be designed 100% retailer agnostic

2021

After 5 years of development and testing we brought solar online with our one-of-a-kind online solar shopping experience and digitally driven approach to project management

2022

We conducted our first council solar bulk buy program with the City of Mitcham in South Australia. Successful beyond our imagination, this was the start of a long term partnership with this forward thinking council

2023

After the success of our first Council Bulk Buy we were once again in Mitcham for our 2nd Solar Bulk Buy. And the news of the success spread quickly with Councils contacting us every day to enquire about running their own programs

2024

Our bulk buy offering continues to go from strength-to-strength with a long line of Councils Australia wide interested in running their own programs. We are proud to say that to date we have helped almost 1,500 households adopt the solar lifestyle through our programs

Beyond tomorrow

As we scale our Council Program offering we believe the sky is the limit. Our passion for growing solar battery and VPP adoption is as strong today as it was when we started our company in 2015

Read more about how we are helping Councils drive solar, battery and VPP adoption at scale and download our bespoke Council toolkit developed in partnership with the City of Mitcham.

Our Mission

The future we want to enable is powered by people. That means renewable energy, solar panels, batteries, and VPP powering Australia forward towards a net zero emissions future where consumers are in control and empowered.  

Our goal is to enable a renewable energy transformation from the ground up, so every homeowner around Australia has access to affordable, reliable, renewable energy to power their life better. 

We don’t simply accept the solar industry status quo, the way it’s always been. It’s not enough to just say, “Well, this is the way it works.”

We ask why we do things in a certain way… and if there’s no good answer, we change things! We see the future of the solar industry as being accessible, simple, and affordable for everyone. And we spend our time dreaming up ways to make this vision a reality.

Our Mission

The future we want to enable is powered by people. That means renewable energy, solar panels, batteries, and VPP powering Australia forward towards a net zero emissions future where consumers are in control and empowered.  

Our goal is to enable a renewable energy transformation from the ground up, so every homeowner around Australia has access to affordable, reliable, renewable energy to power their life better. 

We don’t simply accept the solar industry status quo, the way it’s always been. It’s not enough to just say, “Well, this is the way it works.”

We ask why we do things in a certain way… and if there’s no good answer, we change things! We see the future of the solar industry as being accessible, simple, and affordable for everyone. And we spend our time dreaming up ways to make this vision a reality.

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