We are a little different – When completing a site inspection of the property if we can assist in reducing your bills without even installing solar we will. We have knowledge on what products produce excessive electrical costs, things like panel heaters not running efficiently or having 3-4 fridge’s connected but only using 2 of them, we can offer suggestions to change habits and look to replace items that are costing too much money. Even something as simple as looking over an electric bills advising if the retailer is not looking after yourself. All these measures can save you money and reduce your bills without even installing solar!!

So how does solar help and what does it cost? Taking into account federal incentives and state rebates it’s one of the best times it’s ever been to install solar. As an example only if you’re looking to install a $10,000 solar system when you deduct the federal incentives and the state rebates the actual out of pocket cost to the end user may be only $5,000. Note not all rebates and incentives are applicable to all applicants.

A lot of our systems have out of pocket costs of around this amount and this would give clients a standard good quality 6kW solar system. With this size system a lot of our clients could save approximately $1,000 each year on this size systems. As a quick calculation this could give solar owners a return of investment of 20%.

A 20% return of investment is well above long term returns from the stock market, superannuation funds and any nearly all other forms of investment that is secure and low risk, Best of all its guaranteed, we offer a 5 year whole of system warranty that guarantees the production for a min 5 years and trust me if the sun doesn’t come up tomorrow we all have bigger issues to worry about then whether our solar systems are still working.

When the sun’s out the more power that the solar system produces that can be used internally inside the house will give a better return of investment. The power from the solar system will power the house first so that you don’t have to buy power in from the grid and if there is any excess power this power is fed back into the grid but most likely at a reduced cost therefore the more power that you can use inside the house when it’s nice and sunny the better return of investment you will receive.

Due to economies of scale a 2 kW system as an example may cost $4,000 and a 6 kW system may only cost $8,000. This making the first two kilowatts of solar worth $2,000 per kilowatt and the remaining or kilowatts of solar costing only $1,000 per kilowatt.