Approved product listing · September 2026

Eight Smart Lifestyle models are being de-listed after the supplier's liquidation, and all eight are still on the approved list.

The Clean Energy Council told industry on 11 September 2026 that it intends to de-list three inverters and five batteries sold under the Smart Lifestyle brand, six months after liquidators were appointed to the supplier. The products have been suspended since 17 June. All eight are still on the Clean Energy Regulator's approved product files, in a record that has nowhere to say so.

What the notice says

The de-listing takes effect on 17 September 2026. The Council states, in its own emphasis, that the intended de-listing is not being taken on the basis of a product recall or any identified product safety issue.

The models named are the SLA-HB-S1-3.8kW1P, SLA-HB-S1-5kW1P and SLA-HB-S1-6kW1P inverters, all to AS4777-2 2020, and the SLA-ESS-S1 batteries at 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 kWh. The Council gives case reference 00041762 for the inverters and 00041763 for the batteries. Source: Clean Energy Council notice to industry, 11 September 2026.

Its published de-listings register carries the same entry, announced 11 September 2026 with a de-listing date of 17 September 2026, and gives the reason as follows: the company went into liquidation on 16 March 2026 and is no longer operating; it no longer has an active website, is no longer registered as a responsible supplier, and is uncontactable; and the products, suspended since 17 June 2026, were not the subject of a response to the Council within the required timeframe. Source: Clean Energy Council product suspensions and de-listings register, read 12 September 2026.

The corporate record, read directly

The liquidation is not reported here on the listing body's account of it. ASIC Published Notices carries a notice of appointment as liquidator under paragraph 491(2)(b) of the Corporations Act 2001 for SMART LIFESTYLE AUSTRALIA LIMITED, ACN 652 113 561, status in liquidation, appointment date 16 March 2026. The notice records that at a general meeting of members held that day it was resolved that the company be wound up and that Liam Bellamy and John Kukulovski be appointed liquidators, with the notice dated 17 March 2026. Source: ASIC Published Notices, notice of appointment as liquidator, published 17 March 2026.

A second limb of the Council's stated reason is also checkable. The company's web domain was requested on 12 September 2026 and returned a Cloudflare 522 error, meaning the origin server did not complete the request.

Two records, one product

Six months between the corporate event and the listing consequence

1. 16 Mar 2026
   Liquidators appointedAt a general meeting of members, the company resolves to wind up and Liam Bellamy and John Kukulovski of Mackay Goodwin are appointed. ASIC publishes the notice the following day.
2. 10 Jun 2026
   Suspension announcedThe Clean Energy Council announces the suspension of three inverter models and five battery models, giving the liquidation, the absent website, the lapsed responsible supplier registration and the company being uncontactable as its reasons.
3. 17 Jun 2026
   Suspension takes effectThe same date now appears as the expiry date against all eight models in the Clean Energy Regulator's approved product files.
4. 11 Sep 2026
   De-listing announcedThe Council notifies industry that it intends to de-list the eight models, stating that the company did not respond within the required timeframe.
5. 17 Sep 2026
   De-listing takes effectThe date given in the notice and in the Council's published de-listings register.

The list still carries all eight

The Clean Energy Regulator publishes the approved product files that determine whether a new installation can claim small-scale technology certificates. Both the approved inverter file and the approved solar battery file were last modified on 6 September 2026 and were read on 12 September 2026. The inverter file carries 4,739 rows and the battery file 3,605.

All three SLA-HB-S1 inverters appear in the inverter file, each with a CEC approved date of 9 August 2024 and an expiry date of 17 June 2026. All five SLA-ESS-S1 batteries appear in the battery file, each with a CEC approved date of 22 October 2024 and an expiry date of 17 June 2026. Across the 8,344 rows of the two files, those eight are the only rows carrying that expiry date. Source: Clean Energy Regulator, CEC approved inverters and CEC approved solar batteries, read 12 September 2026.

Where the answer differs

The register records the action. The approved list records an expiry date.

Eight models: three SLA-HB-S1 inverters, five SLA-ESS-S1 batteriesSuspended since 17 June 2026, with an intended de-listing date of 17 September 2026.

The register Carries the suspension and the de-listing

The Council's suspensions table carries the entry with a suspension date of 17 June 2026 and no date lifted. Its de-listings table carries the entry announced 11 September 2026 with a de-listing date of 17 September 2026.

The approved list Carries all eight rows

The Regulator's approved inverter and battery files, last modified 6 September 2026 and read on 12 September, list all eight models. Each carries an expiry date of 17 June 2026. Neither file has a status column.

The battery file's columns are the certificate holder account, brand, series, model, nominal capacity, usable capacity, approved date and expiry date. The module file's are the licensee, model, approved date, expiry date and whether the module is fire tested. There is no field in either that records a suspension, a de-listing, or a supplier that has stopped trading. The expiry date is the only column in which any of it can show up at all.

A de-listing does not remove the row either

The natural assumption is that the rows will go on 17 September. The register's own recent history suggests otherwise. Nineteen Shanghai Electric Hency Solar module models, the SEP2 and SEP3 series, were de-listed on 17 July 2026, on the ground that they no longer had a valid test certificate and that an updated one had not been provided within the required timeframe. All nineteen still appear in the approved PV module file last modified on 6 September 2026, each carrying an approved date of 18 March 2026 and an expiry date of 16 April 2026, which is a listed term of 29 days. Sources: Clean Energy Council product suspensions and de-listings register, read 12 September 2026; Clean Energy Regulator, CEC approved PV modules, read 12 September 2026.

The same manufacturer's 20 newly approved SETS210 models sit in the same file with an approved date of 31 August 2026 and an expiry date of 31 August 2029, a three-year term. A suspension or de-listing binds named models, not a manufacturer, and the file shows both states side by side under one name.

How to read a listing, then

A reader checking eligibility by asking whether a model appears on the approved list gets one answer. A reader checking the expiry date printed beside it gets another. Both fields are published, in the same row, and they are read together only by someone who already knows to look. An expired date beside a present row is ordinary in these files and usually means a certificate lapsed. Sometimes, as here, it sits against a supplier that has been in liquidation for six months.

Our Approval Watch reads these files and reports what changed between published vintages. The Council's register is the earlier source and a separate publication from the lists, and on this evidence it is also the only one of the two that states what happened. Reading the lists alone is not enough, and reading row presence alone is not enough either.

What the files do on 17 September is a measurable test with a known date, eight known rows and a published expectation. We will record it.

Reported from the listing body's notice and register, the corporate record, and the Regulator's published files. review.solar scores no Smart Lifestyle product, and none is named in this piece. The Council states the intended de-listing was not taken on the basis of a product recall or any identified product safety issue. A listing governs certificate eligibility for a new installation 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. Where a supplier is in liquidation, the separate question of who stands behind an existing warranty is a matter for the liquidators.

Sources and method5 references

• Clean Energy Council, notice to industry, CEC Approved PV Module de-listing, Smart Lifestyle Australia Pty Ltd, 11 September 2026, case references 00041762 (inverter) and 00041763 (battery). Primary source for the intended de-listing, its 17 September 2026 effective date, the eight model numbers, the stated reasons, and the statement that the decision was not taken on the basis of a product recall or any identified product safety issue. Note that the notice's subject line describes a PV module de-listing while its content covers inverters and batteries only. No module is involved.
• Clean Energy Council, product suspensions and de-listings, read 12 September 2026. Read as the public register of the same program. Its suspensions table carries the 17 June 2026 suspension with no date lifted; its de-listings table carries the 17 September 2026 de-listing, and the 17 July 2026 Shanghai Electric de-listing with its stated reason. Of the 34 entries the de-listings table currently publishes, 32 cover PV modules; the other two are an Energizer entry announced 14 April 2025 and this one.
• ASIC Published Notices, Notice of appointment as liquidator, SMART LIFESTYLE AUSTRALIA LIMITED, ACN 652 113 561, paragraph 491(2)(b) of the Corporations Act 2001, published 17 March 2026. Primary source for the liquidation, the 16 March 2026 appointment date and the appointees. Used so that the liquidation is not reported on the listing body's account alone.
• Australian Business Register, ABN Lookup, ABN 54 652 113 561, read 12 September 2026. Entity name SMART LIFESTYLE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, ACN 652 113 561. Read to confirm that the company named in the Council's notice and the company in the ASIC notice are one entity. The two registers spell the company type differently against the same ACN, and the ACN is what ties them.
• Clean Energy Regulator, CEC approved inverters, CEC approved solar batteries and CEC approved PV modules, all last modified 6 September 2026, read and parsed 12 September 2026. Row counts 4,739, 3,605 and 4,614. Source for every approval date, expiry date and column list stated above, and for the absence of any status field.