The questions people actually ask before they get quotes, answered without a sales pitch attached.
Check my home, freeAn independent look at whether a home battery pays for itself, what the federal rebate is worth, and how to tell a genuine battery case from a sales pitch.
Read the guide →An independent answer on solar in Victoria for 2026: cost after rebates, realistic payback, and the one thing that decides it for your household.
Read the guide →Real installed solar and battery prices, before and after rebates, and how to tell whether the quote in front of you is fair or padded.
Read the guide →What a solar payback period really means, why quoted figures differ so much, and the unstated assumptions that make payback look shorter than it is.
Read the guide →What Victorian retailers pay for exported solar, why the rate has fallen, and what it means for how you size and use a system.
Read the guide →Every solar and battery rebate a Victorian homeowner can claim, what each is worth, who qualifies, and which ones cannot be combined.
Read the guide →A real quote, line by line: what was fine, what was padding, and the assumption that mattered more than the price.
Read the breakdown →Written for the housing around Footscray, Essendon, Sunshine, Caroline Springs and the Wyndham estates, where the roof and the switchboard change the answer as much as the bill does.
Ducted heating and cooling, pools and double-storey homes change what a solar system has to do. What that means for size, roof layout and whether a battery follows.
Read the guide →Newer roofs and modern switchboards remove one cost, but small lots and multi-faceted rooflines limit how much solar you can actually fit.
Read the guide →What changes when the house is a century old: roof material and condition, complex rooflines, mature trees, and the extension that is often your best roof.
Read the guide →The specification, scope and exclusions that decide whether two solar quotes are actually comparable, and what to get in writing before you accept one.
Read the guide →What decides whether a battery retrofit is simple: your existing inverter, how the battery connects to it, and whether your array is big enough to fill it.
Read the guide →What moves a household from 6.6kW up to 10kW or 13kW, and the point at which a bigger system stops earning back its extra cost.
Read the guide →Why usable roof area is often much smaller than total roof area, and what that means when the system you need does not fit the roof you have.
Read the guide →Which households get real value from a battery and which do not, judged on when you use power rather than on what it costs.
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