Jinko and Aiko panels with a Sigenergy, GoodWe, Tesla Powerwall or Sungrow battery, designed for a Cheltenham home that will heat, cook and charge a car on electricity. Installed by our own A-Grade electricians, with every rebate worked out on the quote.
Most of Cheltenham was built in the years after the war: single-storey brick veneer and weatherboard homes with hipped tile roofs, set on blocks that were generous before half of them were split for villa units and townhouses. For solar that is good news. A postwar hip usually has a clean north or west face, a reachable roof and room for a full array, and very few of these houses have more than a small, older system on them.
The harder question is how big to go. Nearly every original Cheltenham house we look at still heats with gas, warms its water with gas and cooks on gas. When the heater gives out, the reverse cycle that replaces it runs on electricity, and so does a heat pump and an induction cooktop after that. A system sized only for today's bill is too small the winter you change the heating. We ask what is coming and design the array and battery for it.
Units and townhouses are the other half of the suburb. A villa unit roof is often shared or split between owners, so we confirm which faces are yours and what the owners corporation needs to see before we draw a layout. The rest of our work in the area is on the Cheltenham service page.
Each one is chosen with the next five years of the house in mind, and every part is fitted by Powerband employees.
Jinko Tiger Neo or Aiko panels across the north, west and east faces of a tile roof. On an original single-storey Cheltenham house the usable area is usually larger than owners expect, which is what makes room for the extra load of reverse cycle heating and a heat pump later.
Once the gas heater goes, the biggest electrical load in the house lands between 5pm and 10pm in winter. We size a Sigenergy, GoodWe, Tesla Powerwall or Sungrow battery to carry as much of that as the roof can refill, and set up backup circuits for outages.
Many Cheltenham homes still have the original switchboard with ceramic fuses. A battery will not go on it. Where it needs replacing we fit a board with space and capacity for a heat pump, an induction cooktop and an EV charger, so nothing has to be redone.
Smaller and sometimes shared roofs, so the design starts with what is actually yours. A hybrid inverter and a compact wall-mounted battery suit a carport or side wall, and we provide the drawings an owners corporation usually asks for.
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.
We have not written up a Cheltenham job yet. These three are close by, on similar houses, and each case study has the full specification.
Nineteen Jinko panels, a GoodWe home energy system with 16.64kWh of storage, heat pump hot water in place of the old rooftop unit and a 7kW EV charger. The switchboard was moved inside, and the house has no gas left.
A double-storey, single-phase home a few kilometres north. Seventeen panels on the tile roof, a GoodWe inverter and three battery modules in the garage, with a main switchboard upgrade to carry it all.
Twenty-six panels across two planes of a tile roof down the bay in Chelsea, a Sigen hybrid inverter and SigenStor battery, paid for with an interest-free loan and nothing up front.
We are about 40 minutes from Cheltenham, so we book the site visit and the install as full days in the area.
Send us an electricity bill and, if you have it, a gas bill. They tell us more about the right size than the roof does.
Roof faces, shading from the neighbours, the switchboard, battery position and, for a unit, which part of the roof is yours.
Panel layout, inverter, battery size, any board work and the after-rebate total on one page.
We lodge the rebate and network paperwork, then fit the system with our own crew, normally in a day.
The app set up on your phone, backup circuits tested in front of you and the Certificate of Electrical Safety issued.
They are often lumped together. They are separate, and only some apply to each part of the system.
Cheaper Home Batteries takes around 30 percent off an approved battery, with no income test. It is the only battery incentive now: the Solar Victoria battery rebate and loan closed in 2025.
For eligible owner-occupiers, on the panels and inverter only. Some Cheltenham owners will not meet the income or property value tests, so we check before we put it on the quote.
Federal small-scale technology certificates come off the price at the point of sale. If the heating is next, see reverse cycle heating in Cheltenham.
Most solar companies stop at the roof. We also do the heating, hot water and car charging the system ends up running.
Solar, batteries, reverse cycle, heat pump hot water, induction and EV chargers, all by our own A-Grade electricians and ARC licensed technicians.
SAA accredited solar and battery design and install, a New Energy Tech Approved Seller, electrical licence REC 32300.
We are based in Somerville, about 40 minutes away. We group Cheltenham jobs so visits and follow-ups are booked properly, not squeezed in.
More than 20 years on the tools, and more than 5,000 Melbourne homes started on electrification.
Live Google reviews. Look for the Sigenergy, GoodWe and Powerwall jobs.
Anything else, call 0466 355 441 and you will speak to someone who installs these systems.
If you expect to replace the heater in the next few years, yes. Adding panels later costs more than fitting them once, and a winter heating load needs a bigger array and battery than a summer bill suggests. We show you both sizes on the quote.
Often, yes. We confirm which roof faces belong to your unit, check the switchboard and meter set-up, and give you drawings for the owners corporation. A compact battery usually fits on a carport or side wall.
It is replaced before a battery goes in. We price the new board in the same fixed quote and leave space for the circuits an all-electric house needs.
Only for a small number of homes right beside them. For most of Cheltenham, shading comes from neighbouring two-storey townhouses and trees, and we check that at the site visit.
It runs the circuits we set up as backup, usually the fridge, lights, internet and some power points. We agree those with you on the quote and test them at handover.
Site visits are usually within a week or two. Network approval normally sets the install date, and the install itself is generally one day.
A site visit, then one written price with the layout, the battery size, the brands and every rebate that applies to you. No obligation.
