Approved product listing · September 2026

The Clean Energy Council intends to suspend 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 7 September 2026 that it intends to suspend seven battery models manufactured by Bytewatt Technology Co., Ltd under the NeoVolt brand, effective 15 September. The grounds it gives are documentary: a certificate it says is no longer valid, labels that do not match the paperwork, and stock the manufacturer cannot sort into variants.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. Should the suspension proceed, the Council states that these products will not be eligible for small-scale technology certificates for installations starting from 15 September 2026. Source: Clean Energy Council notice to industry, 7 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 led to the intended suspension.

Stated grounds

Three reasons, all of them about documentation

1. 01
   An invalid certificate

   The Council 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.

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.

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.

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 notice names seven models for intended suspension on 15 September 2026: BW-BAT-9.6P and its variants I through VI.

Named The BW-BAT-9.6P platform

Seven models. If the suspension proceeds they become ineligible for small-scale technology certificates for installations from 15 September 2026, with three months to complete corrective actions.

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 the notice. Our single-phase record already described the BW-BAT-9.6P platform as a separate product line before this 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 the Council's notice.

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 this 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.

The register had not caught up

The Council's public product suspensions and de-listings page was read on 7 September 2026. Its suspensions table carried two entries, Shanghai Electric and Thornova Solar, and did not carry this one. That is consistent with a notice describing an intended action eight days ahead of its effective date, and it is the reason every statement here is conditional.

It also marks a gap in how this kind of event reaches a dataset. Our Approval Watch reads the Clean Energy Regulator's published approved-product files and reports what changed between source vintages. A suspension announced by letter, effective in eight days, does not appear in those files until the row itself moves. The register is the earlier source, and it is a separate publication from the lists.

Reported from the listing body's own notice. The action is intended and not in force at the time of writing, 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 method2 references

• 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 and its 15 September 2026 effective date, the seven model numbers, the three stated reasons, the certificate eligibility consequence, the 14 December 2026 corrective action deadline and the de-listing alternative, the statement about existing stock in Australia, and the statement that the decision was not taken on the basis of a product recall or any identified product safety issue.
• 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 yet published and that the action is correctly described as intended rather than in force. The page also states the general rule that suspension runs for up to three months while corrective actions are undertaken.