Large family homes with wide, unshaded roof faces and a garage for the battery. We fit 12kW-class Jinko arrays with GoodWe, Sigenergy or Tesla storage sized to the household, using our own A-Grade electricians from Somerville, 17 minutes away.
Botanic Ridge sits right beside the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, and the houses are a step up in size from most of the Casey estates. Built from about 2010, around Settlers Run and the streets that followed, they are four and five bedroom family homes, a good share of them double storey, on blocks wide enough that the roof has long, clear faces. The estate planting is still young, so shade is rarely a problem.
Those roofs take a 12kW-class array without fuss. Both systems we have written up here are that size: 25 panels for 11.875kW on one home, 26 panels for 12.35kW on the other. The batteries are where they part ways. One household chose 30.6kWh and the other 16.64kWh, because one runs far more through the evening than the other. The battery in a Botanic Ridge quote is set by how you live, not by the size of the house.
Most homes here were connected to gas when built and still use it for heating, hot water and cooking. If any of that is likely to go electric in the next few years, the time to allow for it is when the solar is designed. We ask about it at the site visit. Our other local services are on the Botanic Ridge page.
Roof first, then storage, then whatever was fitted when the house was built.
Jinko Tiger Neo or Aiko panels on the main north face and the east or west face beside it. On a double-storey home we bring the access gear to work at height safely. The panel layout is drawn for your roof and included with the quote.
GoodWe, Sigenergy SigenStor, Tesla Powerwall and Sungrow. We look at when you use power, not only how much, and recommend a size with the reasoning shown. Modular batteries leave room to add capacity later.
Where the meter box is on the garage wall, as it is on many homes here, the battery mounts directly behind it inside. One local job needed cement sheeting on that wall first. Bollards go in where a car parks alongside.
Some homes here were sold with a small array that covers little of a big household's use. We check its age and output, then either build around it or replace it so the best roof face carries modern panels.
The full range is on our products page.
Tier-one panels with 25-year performance warranties, laid out for the roof faces you have.
Hybrid and string inverters, chosen so a battery can join the system now or later.
Home batteries sized to the evening peak, with backup circuits set up for outages.
Home chargers wired into the same system and set to charge from your solar first.
Two homes in the suburb and a double-storey house in neighbouring Cranbourne South.
Twenty-five Jinko Tiger Neo panels feeding a 6kW Hiconics inverter and six battery modules in the garage, enough storage to run the home through the evening on what the roof made that day.
Twenty-six Jinko Tiger Neo III panels across a tile roof, a single-phase GoodWe inverter and two GoodWe battery modules mounted on cement sheeting behind the switchboard.
Next door in Cranbourne South, 14 Jinko panels and a 16.64kWh GoodWe battery on a double-storey, three-phase home, with a 22kW EV charger and a main switchboard upgrade in the same job.
Seventeen minutes from the depot, so the visit and any follow-up are quick to book.
Roof faces and pitch, how we get up to a second storey, the meter box, the garage wall and any solar already on the house.
With your permission we read the interval data, which shows how much power the house uses after the sun goes down.
Layout, inverter, a battery size with the reason for it, and the after-rebate figure. If you want two battery sizes priced, we do both.
Network application, Solar Victoria eligibility for the panels and the federal discounts, all lodged for you.
Usually a day for a system this size. Backup circuits tested, the app set up, Certificate of Electrical Safety issued.
Both written-up Botanic Ridge jobs had the Solar Victoria rebate applied. Whether yours does depends on the household, so we check first.
Every eligible solar system earns small-scale technology certificates on the panels. They come off at the point of sale and need nothing from you.
For owner-occupiers who meet the eligibility rules, on solar panels and inverters. Batteries are not covered, as the Solar Victoria battery rebate and battery loan ended in 2025.
Cheaper Home Batteries reduces an approved battery by around 30 percent with no income test. It applies whether you choose a smaller battery or a large one.
Botanic Ridge is 12 km from our depot in Speedwell Street, Somerville.
We show the usage data behind the size we recommend. Two local homes with the same size array ended up with very different batteries for good reason.
We install reverse cycle heating in Botanic Ridge and heat pump hot water as well, so the solar can be sized for them now.
Double-storey roofs are a regular part of our week, with the right access equipment and our own trained crew.
Solar Accreditation Australia accredited, New Energy Tech Approved Seller, A-Grade electricians employed by Powerband.
Live Google reviews. Look for the Sigenergy, GoodWe and Powerwall jobs.
Questions we have not covered? Call 0466 355 441 and speak with an electrician.
Both systems we have written up here are about 12kW, on 25 and 26 panels. Larger roofs can take more. We measure the faces and match the size to what the household uses.
By your evening and overnight use. Ducted cooling late into the night, an EV or a home office push it up. We read your meter data and show you what each size would have covered.
Not in practice. The gardens are beside the suburb, not over it, and the street trees are young. We still check each face for shade from a second storey or a neighbouring house.
We test it. If it is sound and out of the way, it can stay and we add to the roof. If it sits on the best face, replacing it with modern panels usually gives a much better result.
Yes. We bring the access equipment and allow for it in the fixed price, so there is no surcharge on the day.
No need. Tell us what you expect to change and we size the array and inverter to suit, with a battery you can add modules to later.
A site visit and a look at your usage, then a written quote with the layout, battery size, brands and after-rebate price. No obligation.
