We attended Australia’s leading solar and storage event in Brisbane and left with new conversations, new connections, and a lot to look forward to.
On 18 and 19 March 2026, the Diagno Energy team made the trip to Brisbane for Solar & Storage Live Queensland, Australia’s premier event for the solar, battery storage, and EV charging industries. Held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, the two-day event brought together over 3,000 visitors, 80+ exhibitors, and more than 120 speakers across six conference tracks.
It was two days well spent. We came away with new industry contacts, useful conversations about where the Australian solar sector is heading, and a real sense of the momentum building around smarter approaches to solar operations and maintenance. More on that below.
About Solar & Storage Live Queensland
Solar & Storage Live Queensland is, for good reason, the standout event on the Australian renewable energy calendar. Queensland is leading the country in rooftop solar adoption, with around 42% of homes now fitted with solar. The state has also committed to an 80% renewables target by 2035, backed by major government investment including the $1 billion Solar Sunshot initiative and the $2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries program.
Against that backdrop, the event draws the people who are actually building, managing, and funding the clean energy transition. The conference tracks covered large-scale utility solar, commercial and industrial solar, residential solar, battery storage, EV charging, and grid integration. There was no shortage of substance.
Our Booth at the Start-Up Zone
Diagno had a dedicated booth (S31) in the EnergyLab Start-Up Zone, a section of the exhibition floor set aside for early-stage companies working on the technologies shaping the next chapter of the energy transition.
It was a genuinely good environment for conversations. The people who came by the booth were engaged, curious, and often dealing with the same operational challenges our platform is built to solve. Asset owners managing multiple sites across different monitoring platforms. Facility managers trying to make sense of fault data that was either too noisy or arriving too late. The problems Diagno exists to address were very much front of mind for the people we met.
“What struck me most at the booth was how consistent the pain points were. Too much raw data, not enough clarity on what actually needs attention. That’s exactly the problem Diagno is built to solve, and it was validating to hear it directly from the people living it.”
Tanmai Dhar, Service Delivery Engineer, Diagno Energy
Pitching at the EnergyLab Pitch Fest
We were also selected as one of 10 presenters at the EnergyLab Pitch Fest, a fast-paced pitching session hosted by EnergyLab, one of Australia’s leading climate tech accelerators, designed to connect early-stage renewable energy startups with investors and industry leaders.
Our CTO Earl Duran took the stage to make the case for Diagno and for why the Australian solar market is at an inflection point where diagnostics and data intelligence are no longer optional extras, but operational necessities.
The core of the pitch: Australia has one of the most sophisticated rooftop and commercial solar markets in the world, but the operations and maintenance layer hasn’t kept pace. Asset owners are managing portfolios across multiple monitoring platforms and still struggling to get clear, actionable answers about what’s actually happening at their sites. Diagno closes that gap.
“Pitching at Solar & Storage Live was a reminder of just how large the opportunity is and how early we still are in realising it. Australia leads the world in rooftop solar per capita, but the intelligence layer sitting on top of those assets is still remarkably underdeveloped. The conversations I had with investors and industry leaders reinforced that the market is ready for what Diagno is building. The question is no longer whether AI-powered diagnostics belong in solar O&M. It’s how quickly the industry can adopt them at scale.”
Earl Duran, Chief Technology Officer, Diagno Energy
To everyone who stopped by Booth S31, attended the Pitch Fest, or connected with us over the two days, thank you. It was genuinely great to meet you, and we’re looking forward to continuing those conversations.
If you’d like to learn more about what Diagno does, or explore what AI-powered solar diagnostics could mean for your portfolio, we’d love to hear from you.
