About us

Solar Victoria’s purpose

Our purpose is to empower Victorians to access clean and affordable energy. Victoria’s economy is being transformed to one which will be powered by renewable energy. This transition is critical to mitigate climate change and to bring down energy bills for Victorians.

As experts in solar and energy efficiency we play a critical role in this transition and in supporting the electrification of households.

What we do

We deliver the Victorian Government’s Solar Homes Program and the Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU) program, two of the government’s most important energy transition programs.

Solar Homes Program

The Solar Homes Program is a $1.3 billion investment over 10 years, supporting hundreds of thousands of Victorians to participate in the renewable energy transition. Since 2018, it has helped more than half a million Victorian households reduce their energy bills and emissions.

The Solar Homes Program has been one of Victoria's most successful household energy initiatives, accounting for more than 25% of all renewable energy capacity installed across the state since 2018. It has helped deliver millions of dollars in bill savings for Victorian households while supporting strong industry quality and safety standards.

The Solar Homes Program has also played an important role in developing the skilled renewable energy workforce needed to support Victoria's energy transition and growing demand for clean energy technologies.

Most importantly, it has been delivered safely with safety controls and improved standards and quality implemented across the program since 2018 to protect workers and customers

Victorian Energy Upgrades program

The VEU program joined Solar Victoria in June 2024. We develop policy including legislation, regulation and program specifications to support the VEU program.

The VEU program is the largest energy efficiency upgrade program in Australia, helping Victorians upgrade their homes and businesses with energy-efficient products and services by offering discounts and rebates.

Since the VEU program began in 2009, it has helped over 2.4 million Victorian homes and 180,000 business with energy-saving activities, abated more than 93 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions for Victoria, and successfully encouraged investment, employment and innovation in industries that supply energy efficient products and services.

The VEU Strategic Review, announced in the 2024 State Budget and led by Solar Victoria, will strengthen the VEU program to deliver electrification and energy efficiency at scale. The Victorian Government has now passed new laws to modernise the VEU program, making it easier for households – including renters and lower-income families – and businesses to get help to cut their energy costs, reduce emissions and electrify for the future with new discounts.

We are also currently delivering the Solar for Apartments program to bring the benefits of solar power to households living in apartments, units and townhouses, and the Residential Electrification Grants program.

Past programs Solar Victoria has delivered include Solar for Business, the Zero Emissions Vehicle Subsidy, and Home Heating and Cooling Upgrades.

Solar Victoria Leadership Team

Solar Victoria has a well credentialed senior leadership team, with significant experience across the energy, sustainability and communications sectors.

Our leadership team has a clear vision for delivery of the program, with the goal of saving Victorian households thousands of dollars and helping to provide a cleaner, renewable future.

Our leaders strive to build a positive organisational culture built on strong leadership, diversity, collaboration, innovation and investment in our people.

Solar Victoria aligns with DEECA's chosen values of:

teamwork
wellbeing and safety
ownership
service excellence.

Stan is an experienced CEO and Non-Executive Director with a track record successfully delivering high-profile government programs and leading reforms in sectors including renewable energy, sustainability, health and safety, environmental regulation and the law.
As CEO of Solar Victoria, Stan is responsible for the delivery of the Victorian Government’s flagship $1.3 billion Solar Homes Program and a range of household incentive programs.
Prior to this, Stan was the CEO of Sustainability Victoria for eight years, where he led a significant expansion and grew the agency’s footprint and impact in the areas of climate change, renewables, energy-efficiency, and waste and recycling.
Stan has undertaken high-profile reform roles for the Victorian Government in building and planning, most recently as the Co-Chair of the Building Victoria’s Recovery Taskforce and as CEO of the Victorian Cladding Taskforce. In 2010, Stan undertook an independent review of EPA Victoria’s compliance and enforcement activity.
Stan was recognised with a Public Service Medal in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for outstanding leadership in the areas of environmental and social policy, policy and program delivery.
Stan is a lawyer by training and has undertaken post-graduate study (Monash University) and executive education (Harvard Business School, London School of Economics and Cambridge University). He is an advisory board member of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and has held board and chair roles with universities and not for profits. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration and an Alumnus of the Williamson Community Leadership Program. 
As the Executive Director of the Customer, Programs and Digital (CPD) Division, Kate leads a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the successful end-to end program development and service delivery of the Solar Homes Program.
The team provides accessible programs, services and agile digital solutions to help customers and stakeholders participate in and receive the benefits of Solar Victoria's programs and initiatives. This includes a core focus on putting the customer first, enabling simple and innovative digital experiences, pursuing a culture of first-contact resolution and low customer effort, and placing an emphasis on using customer insights and data to drive a better experience for customers.
The CPD Division also leads our initiatives designed to support industry, including oversight of renewable technologies, training and workforce programs and stakeholder engagement for the organisation.
Kate is a passionate customer-centric leader, focused on driving organisations to embed and deliver culture and strategies which deliver optimal experiences and innovative outcomes for their consumers, clients and customers.
With a rich and diverse background leading divisions and people across government and not-for-profit aged care and health/hospital sectors, and her qualifications in Customer Experience strategic leadership and organisational change, Kate applies a relentless focus on building empowered, high performing, customer-focused teams and ensuring effective delivery of products and services meet the needs of the community.
Renae Gasmier joined Solar Victoria on Tuesday 7 April 2026 in a new senior executive role, reporting to the CEO to lead our new Energy Efficiency Target Reform (EETR) Division.
Renae’s experience spans energy transition leadership across policy, procurement, property and clean energy within government and private sectors.
Her most recent role was Head of Innovation and Strategy at AGL, leading their long-term electrification strategy and working closely with government and industry to ensure a consumer innovation lens is central to the rapidly changing consumer energy resources policy landscape. A highlight was AGL's win of the 2025 AFR Most Innovative Companies Award, recognising its leadership in innovation to enable more Australians to electrify transport, including through its Vehicle‑to‑Grid trial.
Renae has broad experience across industry, government and the commercial sectors, stakeholder engagement and focus on customers.
Renae has a strong commercial background. She has worked with the West Australian Government to develop an Australian-first rapid cost benefit analysis for the commercialisation of consumer energy resources and VPPs – reimagining how energy is created, sold, and consumed across the west and east coasts of Australia. She also created and delivered several economic stimulus packages, and programs across regional WA schools such as Schools Virtual Power Plant and Solar Schools.
Nicole leads a multi-disciplinary team with accountability for organisational strategy business performance, workforce development and culture, financial management and enterprise insights and data. The Office ensures alignment with both DEECA and government priorities, policies and values.
Nicole is an experienced public service practitioner with her career spanning regulation, policy development, and program delivery in the areas of energy, climate change, environment protection, waste and resource recovery, and emergency management.
Ben leads Solar Victoria’s safety, quality and assurance program which includes an extensive risk-based audit program, compliance investigations and consumer protection activities. He works with key stakeholders including regulators, industry bodies, government and businesses to develop and implement risk and assurance mechanisms for our programs.
Ben drives best-practice approaches in safety and quality for the installation of renewable technologies to ensure the program delivers products and services that meet the quality, health and safety standards set by the Victorian Government and industry.
Ben has extensive experience as a regulator including strategic compliance projects, with a background in engineering and occupational health and safety. He has worked across public service, regulators and military to implement and ensure safer standards and compliance programs.
Caro leads a team of multi-disciplinary communications specialists with responsibility for end-to-end strategic communications and media. The teams works closely with marketing, digital, brand and design experts on Solar Victoria’s content and promotions.
Using multi-channel communications to expand the reach of Solar Victoria's programs to customers, potential customers and industry, the communications and media functions ensure wide access to the program for all Victorians.
Caro also oversees DEECA’s Energy Group communications and media functions under the same model, bringing together the Victorian government ‘s flagship most ambitious programs delivering the energy transition.
Caro's background is in strategic communications and issues management, with more than a decade’s experience in government communications working across several portfolios.