It has the right orientation, it is already paid for, and it has been sitting in full sun for years doing nothing with it. A free assessment tells you what it would produce, what a system costs, and how long until it has paid for itself.
Not on square metres of roof, and not on how much you want to spend. A household that is empty until 6pm needs a fundamentally different system to one with someone home all day.
Every “from $X,XXX” headline you have seen is a number attached to a system that almost nobody ends up buying — smallest array, cheapest panel, no allowance for a switchboard upgrade, a meter change, a second storey or a tile roof. The quote that arrives later is a different number.
So we quote after we have looked, and we itemise it — hardware, labour, and the STC rebate on its own line — so you can hold it up against anyone else’s and see exactly where they differ.
Ask for a real quoteWe look at your actual usage
Send us a recent bill. Interval data if your meter has it. We model your real consumption pattern rather than assuming an average household, because the difference between daytime and evening use changes the answer completely.
You get an itemised written quote
Hardware, labour, and the STC rebate shown as separate lines so you can compare it against any other quote line by line. If we think a battery is not worth it for you yet, the quote will say so.
An accredited installer does the work
Installed by an accredited installer with a licensed electrician, to AS/NZS 4777.2. We handle the grid connection application and the STC paperwork, which is the part that actually takes the time.
You can see what it is doing
Monitoring from day one — generation, consumption, battery state, import and export. Worth opening in the first fortnight, because the most common way a fault goes unnoticed is that nobody ever checks.
Small-scale Technology Certificates genuinely reduce the upfront cost of a system under 100 kW. The entitlement depends on system size, your postcode’s solar zone and the year of installation, and it steps down annually until the scheme ends in 2030. Your installer assigns them and credits the value on the invoice.
Finance is where the fine print lives. If an offer is “$0 upfront”, ask for the cash price and the financed price side by side. Any gap between them is the real cost of the finance — which may well be worth paying, but you should be the one deciding that.