Jemena
Jemena distributes across north-west Melbourne. Its process is unusually equipment-strict at both ends: an application is rejected outright if the inverter is not on Jemena's own list, and a connected system's export depends on the inverter staying online afterwards.
What they assess
- Two applications, not one
- The connection application and a separate commissioning application both run through My Portal, so the job is opened and closed on the same surface but as distinct submissions.
- Testing and commissioning is its own phase
- Work on site is followed by a distinct testing and commissioning step rather than the install being the end of it.
- Equipment checked against Jemena's own list
- The approved inverter list is Jemena's, maintained separately from the other Victorian distributors' lists.
Where it snags
An inverter that is not on Jemena's approved list gets the application rejected rather than queried. That applies to the commissioning submission as well as the first one, so the wrong model does not surface as a question — it surfaces as a rejection after the work is done. Jemena — solar installers hub
The inverter has to stay connected to the internet. A system that loses its connection faces reduced export capacity, which makes the customer's wi-fi a live part of the install rather than a convenience — worth saying out loud at handover, because the consequence arrives months later and looks like a fault. Jemena — solar installers hub
The emergency backstop is the question customers ask after the sale, not before it. Being able to explain that curtailment is a network-wide arrangement rather than a fault in their system saves the call-back. Jemena — Victorian emergency backstop
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