🇦🇺 How to Customise/Update STC settings?

Summary

This article walks you through how to update your STC (Small-scale Technology Certificate) incentive for the upcoming year in OpenSolar. It includes two separate workflows—one for new OpenSolar users and another for existing users—to ensure accurate incentive pricing and preserve financial calculations in your projects.

Accessing Your Incentive List

To update or configure the STC incentive:

1. Go to Control from your main navigation.

2. Under the Other section in the left-hand sidebar, click Incentives.

This opens the Incentives List, where you can:

• View all available incentives

• Check which incentives are currently applied

• Edit the STC incentive price and years remaining, which influence the financials of your proposals

Steps for New OpenSolar Users

If you're setting up the STC incentive for the first time:

• Locate the STC incentive in the Incentives List.

• Click the pencil/edit icon next to the STC entry.

You will be taken to the incentive details page where you can:

• Confirm or modify the Incentive Price (e.g. $40 per certificate)

• Adjust the Years Remaining field to reflect the current government deeming period

Once you're done, scroll to the bottom and click the Save button to apply changes.

Steps for Existing OpenSolar Users

If you've previously configured STC incentives, do not modify the current STC (e.g. "STC 2024") to avoid altering historical project data.

Instead, follow these best practices:

Create a New STC Incentive

• Go to:
  Control > Other > Incentives

• Locate the current year’s STC (e.g. "STC 2024")

• Click the Duplicate icon under the Actions column

• In the duplicated entry:

  • Rename it to the new year (e.g. STC 2025)

  • Update the Incentive Price and Years Remaining

  • Enable Auto-Apply for the new STC

  • Disable Auto-Apply for the old STC to prevent it from being applied to future projects

• Click Save

 Important: Editing the existing STC incentive will retroactively affect all projects that use it. Always duplicate for new years.