Get a free solar and battery quote

What happens after you send the form

1. We call you. We talk through your power bills, your roof and whether you want solar, a battery or both. We’ll book a time that suits you.
2. A free inspection. We look at the roof and its shading, the switchboard and meter box, and where an inverter or battery could go. If you have solar already, we check the inverter too.
3. We design the system. We size it to the power you use and to the export limit your electricity distributor allows. Export limits in Victoria.
4. You get a fixed price in writing. A written quote with every federal rebate your home qualifies for already taken off. There’s no obligation to go ahead.

Applying for Solar Victoria’s panel rebate? The application starts from a written quote, which a retailer on Solar Victoria’s authorised list uploads for you. But Solar Victoria recommends you don’t accept a quote in writing or pay a deposit until it confirms you’re eligible, and that any deposit you do pay is fully refundable.

How an install runs

What do you need for a solar quote?

None of this is needed to send the form, and we can go through it with you at the inspection. Having it to hand when we call makes the first conversation, and the design, quicker. You can email photos to sales@solarinstallations-melbourne.com.au.

• A recent electricity bill. It shows how many kWh you use and what you pay for them. Your smart meter data is even better: the Essential Services Commission says you can get it from your electricity distributor.
• Your NMI. The National Metering Identifier is a unique number for the electricity connection at your address: 10 or 11 characters, often on the first page of your bill, near your customer details (Energy Made Easy). The battery rebate goes by it too: the Clean Energy Regulator allows one battery claim per NMI.
• Single or three phase, if you know. The meter’s label and the main switch tell you, without touching anything. How to tell which you have.
• Photos of the roof and the switchboard. One of each roof face, and one of the switchboard with its door open. Look, don’t touch: never remove a cover.
• For a battery on existing solar: the inverter’s label. A photo of the label on the side of the inverter (make, model and size), and whether the home has had a battery before. Added capacity only earns the rebate if the first battery never claimed it.

Adding a battery to your solar

What your written quote shows

Your quote is a fixed price, and it spells out what that price buys so you can check every line of it.

• Every part by make, model and quantity. The panels, the inverter and any battery, with the battery’s usable kWh.
• How the system should perform. The Clean Energy Regulator says every retailer must include this in a quote.
• The rebates, line by line. The STCs on the panels and, for a battery, under the Cheaper Home Batteries Program, with the dollars taken off for them. The Clean Energy Regulator says agents usually pay $33–$38 per STC, so you can check the figure. Every federal rebate your home qualifies for comes off before you see the total.
• Solar Victoria’s panel rebate. Only a retailer on Solar Victoria’s authorised list can apply it to a quote. How the rebate works.
• The export limit. How much your distributor allows the system to send to the grid.
• Monitoring. How you’ll see what the system makes, in the inverter maker’s app.
• Warranties. The warranty on every panel, inverter and battery, and on our workmanship.
• Deposit and payment terms. When each payment is due. Ask about finance when we quote; the loan is always between you and the lender. Finance options.
• How long the price holds. The date the quote is valid until.

Should you get more than one quote?

Yes. The Clean Energy Regulator recommends getting more than one quote and comparing the systems offered. Compare them line by line rather than on the total: the same parts, the same rebates and the same extras. Our guide to choosing an installer has a printable checklist for it.

The quote checklist

Which quote do you need?

The form above suits every home quote. These pages cover each job in more detail.

• Solar, or solar and a battery. Packages from 6.6kW to 28kW, for single and three phase homes. See the packages.
• A solar battery quote for the solar you have. Whether your inverter stays or is swapped for a hybrid changes the job, and so the price. AC or DC coupled, and how we add a battery.
• Repairs and servicing. A system that has stopped working is quoted once we find the fault. Solar repairs.
• More panels, or a newer system. Extending an old system or replacing worn parts. Upgrades and extensions.
• A business. Systems designed to the site and its power use, with a quote form worded for businesses. Commercial solar.

All our services

Who will quote your home

• LocalOur workshop is at 8/41 Ricketts Road, Mount Waverley, VIC 3149.
• Fixed priceA written price after the inspection, with no obligation to go ahead.
• Inspected firstWe see every home before we put a price on it.

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