Who gets found first in solar & batteries.

One measure of how Australians find solar & batteries, across Google, AI answers, social platforms and brand demand. 389 brands discovered and 100 recorded, ranked on a single presence score. August 2026 edition.

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Leading this boardAugust 2026

#1SolarQuotes39.6

#2Solar Choice36.2

#3CHOICE24.3

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Measured across

Google AI Overviews ChatGPT Gemini Claude Perplexity Copilot TikTok Instagram YouTube Reddit

The board in brief

The lead 39.6 SolarQuotes

3.4 points clear of Solar Choice, who sits at 36.2.

The chase 36.2–18.9 3 brands chasing

Solar Choice 36.2
CHOICE 24.3
Sungrow 18.9

The deciding channel 45% Search discoverability

SolarQuotes 37.8
Solar Choice 33.4

At 45% of the score, the lead over the next brand here moves the ranking further than any other channel's does.

Who owns each channel

Search 45% of the score SolarQuotes 37.8

AI 30% of the score Solar Choice 51.2 · #2 overall

Social 15% of the score Sungrow 60.4 · #4 overall

Demand 10% of the score Sungrow 37.2 · #4 overall

The board · August 2026

1 Move — SolarQuotes solarquotes.com.au Search 37.8 AI 43.9 Social 38.4 Demand 36.7 39.6

2 Move — Solar Choice solarchoice.net.au Search 33.4 AI 51.2 Social 20.1 Demand 27.8 36.2

3 Move — CHOICE choice.com.au Search 11.1 AI 42.8 Social 39.7 Demand 5.5 24.3

4 Move — Sungrow sungrowpower.com Search 0.0 AI 20.3 Social 60.4 Demand 37.2 18.9

5 Move — Jinko Solar jinkosolar.com Search 0.0 AI 31.1 Social 34.1 Demand 4.6 14.9

6 Move — Commodore Australia commodoreaustralia.com.au Search 5.4 AI 40.3 Social 0.0 Demand 2.9 14.8

7 Move — Trina Solar trinasolar.com Search 0.0 AI 24.8 Social 32.0 Demand 25.5 14.8

8 Move — Australian Government – Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water energy.gov.au Search 28.7 AI 5.0 Social 0.0 Demand 0.0 14.4

9 Move — AGL agl.com.au Search 22.4 AI 0.7 Social 7.5 Demand 26.0 14.0

10 Move — NSW Government nsw.gov.au Search 27.5 AI 4.2 Social 0.0 Demand n/m 13.6

11 Move — energy.nsw.gov.au energy.nsw.gov.au Search 27.5 AI 4.2 Social 0.0 Demand n/m 13.6

12 Move — Tesla tesla.com Search 0.0 AI 17.5 Social 32.8 Demand 33.0 13.5

13 Move — SunPower sunpowerglobal.com Search 0.0 AI 25.4 Social 17.6 Demand 21.3 12.4

14 Move — GoodWe goodwe.com Search 0.0 AI 9.1 Social 41.1 Demand 35.4 12.4

15 Move — Statewide Power statewidepower.com.au Search 6.7 AI 30.6 Social 0.0 Demand 0.0 12.2

16 Move — SunWiz sunwiz.com.au Search 0.0 AI 29.9 Social 21.9 Demand 0.0 12.2

17 Move — Solar Market solarmarket.com.au Search 5.7 AI 28.4 Social 0.0 Demand 0.0 11.1

18 Move — REC Group recgroup.com Search 0.0 AI 26.8 Social 16.9 Demand 0.0 10.6

19 Move — Solar Calculator solarcalculator.com.au Search 11.5 AI 9.1 Social 2.3 Demand 18.8 10.1

20 Move — Canstar Blue canstar.com.au Search 0.0 AI 32.8 Social 0.0 Demand 0.0 9.8

Head to head

Compare two brands.

Your brandTheir brand

SolarQuotesRank #139.6

SearchSocialDemand

Solar ChoiceRank #236.2

Search discoverability37.833.4AI visibility43.951.2Social discoverability38.420.1Brand demand36.727.8

A channel showing n/m could not be measured for that brand this edition, so neither side wins it. It is not a zero.

Method

Four channels, one number.

Each channel is scored out of 100 against the set below, on its own terms, then combined on fixed weights. Nothing in this edition passes 76 and nothing realistically will: a brand would have to lead every channel at once.

45% 30% 15% 10%

45% Organic search

Google AI Overviews

12 category keywords per board, position weighted

30% AI answers

ChatGPT Gemini Claude Perplexity Copilot AI Mode

25 questions put to 7 engines, scored on who gets named

15% Social search

TikTok Instagram YouTube Reddit

Searches run inside each platform, not on the open web

10% Brand demand

Monthly Australian search volume for the brand name and its close variants

Worked example SolarQuotes, ranked first on solar & batteries

39.6 of 100

SolarQuotes scores 39.6

Four channels, each scored out of 100 on its own terms, then weighted and added. The dotted arc is the headroom nobody in the index has taken.

Search discoverability +16.9 37.8 scored × 45% AI visibility +13.2 43.9 scored × 30% Social discoverability +5.8 38.4 scored × 15% Brand demand +3.7 36.7 scored × 10%

Add the four contributions together and you have the presence score. A brand strong on one channel only cannot climb far, which is the point. Where a channel could not be measured its weight is shared across the rest rather than counted as zero, so the percentages here always total 100. Contributions are rounded to one decimal place.

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