Tradies owed thousands of dollars following the collapse of the country’s largest rooftop solar company are worried they’ll never get the money they’re owed.
SolarZero was placed into surprise liquidation last week, with owner US investment giant BlackRock blaming “unsustainable losses”.
Close to 200 workers are owed millions in holiday and redundancy packages.
Iain McIsaac, managing director of solar panel installer Green Van Electrical, called it a “huge dent”.
“I’ve got wages to pay. I’ve got rent — we’ve just bought a new building, wholesalers to pay,” he said.
“It’s a huge dent in the business and mine’s less than others but more than others.”
McIsaac said dark clouds had been hanging over the business recently, but the liquidation…
