Approved product listing · September 2026

The Clean Energy Council has suspended seven NeoVolt battery models, and states the decision is not about safety.

The Council, in its capacity as the product listing body, told industry on 15 September 2026 that it has suspended seven battery models manufactured by Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd under the NeoVolt brand, effective that day. The grounds it gives are documentary: labels that do not match the certification paperwork, and imported stock the manufacturer cannot sort into variants. The Council states, in its own emphasis and twice in the same notice, that the decision was not taken on the basis of a product recall or any identified product safety issue.

What the notice says

The models named are BW-BAT-9.6P and its variants BW-BAT-9.6P I, II, III, IV, V and VI. The Council states that these products are no longer eligible for small-scale technology certificates for installations from 15 September 2026. It gives the manufacturer until 14 December 2026 to complete corrective actions. If they are completed, the suspension is lifted and eligibility resumes from the date it is lifted; if they are not, the seven models are de-listed. Installers, retailers and distributors are directed to the registered importer, Solar Capital Australia Pty Ltd. Source: Clean Energy Council notice to industry, 15 September 2026, case reference 00041718.

The Council also states that, given the quantity of existing stock in Australia, this will have a serious impact for some businesses and consumers, and that it is working with the manufacturer to address the matters that resulted in the suspension. The notice follows its 7 September notice of an intended suspension, which named the same seven models and the same effective date.

Stated grounds

Three grounds stated on 7 September, two of them repeated on 15 September

1. 01
   An invalid certificate

   The 7 September notice states that the IEC 62619 certificate relied upon to approve models BW-BAT-9.6P I to VI for listing is now invalid. IEC 62619 is the safety standard for secondary lithium cells and batteries in industrial applications. The 15 September notice does not repeat this ground.

2. 02
   Nameplate labels that do not match

   Nameplate labels on products supplied in Australia were found to be inconsistent with those in the testing and certification documentation initially supplied to the Council. Stated in both notices.

3. 03
   Variants that cannot be told apart

   The Council states the manufacturer has failed to clarify why different variants of the BW-BAT-9.6P model were imported, and is unable to distinguish which of its imported stock belongs to each variant. Stated in both notices.

The effective-date notice states two grounds: nameplate labels on products supplied in Australia inconsistent with the testing and certification documentation initially supplied, and a failure to clarify why different variants of BW-BAT-9.6P were imported, with the manufacturer unable to distinguish which imported stock belongs to each variant. The 7 September notice had stated a third ground, that the IEC 62619 certificate relied upon for models I to VI was invalid. The 15 September notice and the Council's product page for this action do not repeat it. Whether that ground was resolved or withdrawn is not stated by the Council, and this piece does not infer it. Source: Clean Energy Council notices to industry, 7 and 15 September 2026.

What a suspension does, and for how long

A suspension is a time-boxed removal from the approved list, not an end state. The Council sets out the sequence: from 15 September 2026 the models are suspended and industry is notified through its product suspensions and de-listings page; from 15 September to 14 December 2026 the manufacturer has three months to complete corrective actions. If it completes them, the suspension is lifted and the models return to the list, becoming eligible for certificates again from the date it is lifted. If it does not, the models are de-listed.

The consequence attaches to the installation date. A listing governs whether a new installation can claim certificates under the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme, and expiry or suspension is a statement about program eligibility on a date. It is not a finding about a product's chemistry, warranty or field performance, and a system already installed is not affected when its model leaves the list.

Which models, and which are not named

Scope of the notice

One manufacturer, two battery platforms, and the notice names one of them

Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd, NeoVolt brandThe Council's notices name seven models suspended from 15 September 2026: BW-BAT-9.6P and its variants I through VI.

Named The BW-BAT-9.6P platform

Seven models. They are ineligible for small-scale technology certificates for installations from 15 September 2026, with corrective actions due by 14 December 2026.

Not named BW-BAT-10.1P and BW-BAT-4.8S

The certification models behind the two NeoVolt systems scored on review.solar. Neither appears in either notice. Our single-phase record already described the BW-BAT-9.6P platform as a separate product line before the first notice was issued.

Two NeoVolt systems carry scores on review.solar: the Single Phase 5 at 9.6 kWh usable, and the Three Phase 10 at 9.2 kWh usable. Their scored reference configurations are certified as BW-BAT-10.1P and BW-BAT-4.8S respectively. Neither model number appears in either of the Council's notices.

That separation is not a convenient reading made after the fact. The single-phase record's supporting note already stated that the scored reference is Bytewatt's blue-enclosure system and is separate from the white-enclosure BW-BAT-9.6P platform, and it said so before the first notice existed. A brand-level reading of this action would be wrong in both directions: it would attach the notice to products the Council has not named, and it would obscure that the same manufacturer stands behind both platforms.

Scores are unchanged. Nothing in a listing action feeds the rubric, which reads published specifications, certifications and warranty terms.

Where the Council has published it, and where it has not

The Council's approved batteries page carried a notice on 15 September 2026 that, effective that date, several Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd (NEOVOLT) battery models were suspended from the approved products list, and linked to a dedicated page for the action setting out the seven models, the two grounds, the 14 December deadline and the importer. Source: Clean Energy Council, approved batteries page and product page for the Bytewatt (NEOVOLT) suspension, read 15 September 2026.

The product suspensions and de-listings register on the same site is a separate publication. Its suspensions table, read at 21:40 AWST on 15 September 2026, carried three entries: Smart Lifestyle Australia Pty Ltd, suspended 17 June 2026 with no date lifted; Sunova Solar Technology Co Ltd, suspended 30 July 2025 and lifted 22 August 2025; and CSI Solar Co Ltd, announced 10 January 2025. Its de-listings table carried the Smart Lifestyle Australia entry announced on 11 September with a de-listing date of 17 September 2026. Neither table carried this action. The register lagged the Council's own notice on the day the notice took effect, and the lag is not explained by a practice of publishing only once an action is in force, since the de-listings table already carried an action two days ahead of its date. Source: Clean Energy Council product suspensions and de-listings register, table data read 15 September 2026.

When this piece was first published on 7 September, the same suspensions table carried two entries, Shanghai Electric and Thornova Solar, and did not carry this one, which was the reason every statement was then conditional. The suspension has since proceeded on the date the Council named, and the conditional is lifted on the Council's own effective-date notice and product page, not on the register.

The lag sharpens the dataset point. Our Approval Watch reads the Clean Energy Regulator's published approved-product files and reports what changed between source vintages. The Regulator's battery file current on 15 September 2026 was last modified on 11 September and still carries all seven BW-BAT-9.6P rows; a suspension effective today reaches that dataset only when the rows themselves move. The Council's notice is the earliest source, its product page the earliest public one, the register later still, and the Regulator's file last. Source: Clean Energy Regulator, CEC approved solar batteries export, source version dated 11 September 2026, retrieved 15 September 2026.

Reported from the listing body's own notice. The suspension is in force from 15 September 2026, no scored product is named in it, and the Council states the decision was not taken on the basis of a recall or any identified product safety issue.

Sources and method7 references

• Clean Energy Council, notice to industry, CEC Approved Battery suspension, Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd (NEOVOLT), 15 September 2026, case reference 00041718. Primary source for the suspension in force from 15 September 2026, the seven model numbers, the two stated grounds, the certificate eligibility consequence, the 14 December 2026 corrective action deadline and the de-listing alternative, the registered importer, the statement about existing stock in Australia, and the statement, made twice, that the decision was not taken on the basis of a product recall or any identified product safety issue.
• Clean Energy Council, product suspension: Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd (NEOVOLT), read 15 September 2026. The Council's public page for this action. Read for the effective date, models, grounds, corrective action window, importer and the recall statement, which match the 15 September notice.
• Clean Energy Council, approved batteries, read 15 September 2026. Read for the notice line stating that, effective 15 September 2026, several Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd (NEOVOLT) battery models were suspended from the approved products list, and for its link to the product page above.
• Clean Energy Council, notice to industry, CEC Approved Battery suspension, Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd (NEOVOLT), 7 September 2026, case reference 00041718. Primary source for the intended suspension as first reported, and for the third stated ground, the IEC 62619 certificate, which the 15 September notice does not repeat.
• Clean Energy Council, product suspensions and de-listings, read 15 September 2026 at 21:40 AWST. Read to establish what the public register carried on the effective date: three suspension entries, none of them Bytewatt, NeoVolt or BW-BAT-9.6P, and no corresponding de-listing entry. Also read as the source for the Smart Lifestyle de-listing carried ahead of its own effective date. The two tables on that page are embedded datasets rather than page markup, and were read from the embed data directly.
• Clean Energy Council, product suspensions and de-listings, read 7 September 2026. Read as the public register of the same program, to establish that the entry was not then published. The page also states the general rule that suspension runs for up to three months while corrective actions are undertaken.
• Clean Energy Regulator, CEC approved solar batteries export, source version dated 11 September 2026, retrieved 15 September 2026 by this site's Approval Watch source check. Read to establish that the file current on the effective date still carries all seven BW-BAT-9.6P rows under manufacturer Bytewatt Technology Co.,Ltd. and brand NEOVOLT.