Sloping blocks, roofs turned towards the view and three very different kinds of house. We design each Mount Martha system for the load the home will carry once heating, hot water and cooking are electric. Installed by our own A-Grade electricians from Somerville.
Houses in Mount Martha were built to look at the water. On the slopes above the Esplanade that often means the big roof faces point west or south-west towards the bay, and the north face is the small one at the back, cut into the hill or shaded by the trees upslope. So a Mount Martha design rarely starts with a neat north-facing rectangle. It starts with working out how much each face produces across the day, and a west face is more useful than people expect, because it is still generating when the household gets home.
There are really three suburbs here. The older beach houses near the village and South Beach have small, simple roofs and often an old switchboard. The 1990s and 2000s estate homes inland towards Bentons Road have hipped tile roofs with room for a solid system, and many carry a small early array that is now undersized. The large newer homes have big roofs, modern boards and big loads to match. Each needs a different size and a different battery position.
What ties them together is where the house is heading. Our written-up Mount Martha job is a home where heating, hot water and cooking are all electric and the gas line is gone, carried by 15.2kW of solar and a 24.18kWh battery. We size for that end point even if you are only doing the solar this year. See our full range of work in Mount Martha.
Hardware we stock parts for, fitted by Powerband electricians.
Jinko Tiger Neo and Aiko panels spread over the faces that work, with each orientation on its own input so a west face and an east face both run at their best. On steep sites we plan access and anchor points before the day.
Once the heater, hot water and cooktop are electric, the evening load is larger than a gas home ever had. Sigenergy SigenStor is modular, so a battery can start at three modules and grow. GoodWe, Tesla Powerwall and Sungrow are the alternatives we fit.
Mount Martha went solar early, and many estate homes have a small array with an ageing inverter. We test it, then either add a battery and hybrid inverter to what is there or replace the lot with a full-roof system.
Wind off the bay brings both salt and outages. Mounting, isolators and enclosures are salt-rated on homes near the water, and backup circuits keep the fridge, lights and internet running when the grid drops.
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.
A Mount Martha home first, then Safety Beach next door and Dromana just past it.
Heating, hot water and cooking are all electric at this house and the gas line is gone. 32 Jinko panels and three Sigenergy batteries were installed in a single day, and the monthly bill fell from $302 to $148.
Next door in Safety Beach, 53 Jinko Tiger Neo III panels feed a Sigenergy three-phase inverter and six battery modules behind the garage switchboard. It was planned as a two-day job and finished in one.
A new home in Dromana fitted out before the owner moved in. 21 Jinko panels across two roof faces, laid out around a skylight, with a three-phase GoodWe inverter and 16.64kWh of GoodWe storage on an exterior wall.
Five steps, and the first one is a conversation, not a measurement.
Heating, hot water, cooktop, a car. The answers set the array and battery size more than the last power bill does.
Orientation and shade on each face, roof material, access on a sloping site, the switchboard and the supply type.
A layout and one fixed after-rebate price. If you want solar now and the battery later, the inverter is chosen so the battery connects without rework.
Network application and rebate paperwork lodged by us. Our local job went in within a single day.
Monitoring is set up at handover. On our Mount Martha job the bill kept falling after the settings and plan were tuned, so we check in once the system has run a while.
They stack, but each covers a different part of the system.
Federal small-scale technology certificates reduce the price of the panels at the point of sale. There is nothing for you to claim afterwards.
The federal battery discount, around 30 percent off an approved battery, with no income test. It applies whether the battery goes in with new solar or onto an existing system.
A rebate and interest-free loan for eligible owner-occupiers. Batteries are not covered, since the Solar Victoria battery rebate and battery loan closed in 2025. Planning to electrify the heating too? See heating and cooling in Mount Martha.
Solar is one part of that job. We do the other parts as well, which is why our sizing holds up.
The same company installs the reverse cycle, the heat pump hot water and the EV charger. We know what they draw because we commission them.
One Mount Martha household, all electric, $302 a month down to $148, with the system and the bills set out in the case study.
Solar Accreditation Australia accredited, New Energy Tech Approved Seller, with A-Grade electricians on our own payroll.
Close enough to come back and adjust settings, add battery modules or wire in the charger when the car arrives.
Live Google reviews. Look for the Sigenergy, GoodWe and Powerwall jobs.
Anything else, call 0466 355 441. You will get an electrician on the phone.
No. A west face produces a little less over the year than a north one, but it produces later in the day, when a household is home and using power. Many of our coastal designs lean on east and west faces together.
More than a gas home, because heating, hot water and cooking all move onto the meter. The Mount Martha home on this page runs entirely on electricity with 15.2kW of solar and 24.18kWh of storage. Yours is sized on its own roof and usage.
Yes, and it is a sensible order if the gas appliances still have life in them. Tell us the plan and we size the array and inverter for it, so nothing has to be replaced when the heater or hot water unit is changed.
Sometimes a little, where extra access equipment is needed. It is assessed at the site visit and included in the fixed price, so there are no additions on the day.
We test it first. Sound panels with a working inverter can stay and take a battery. A small array on the best face of the roof is often worth replacing, because modern panels get far more from the same area.
When backup circuits are set up, yes. The circuits you choose stay on, and the panels keep charging the battery during daylight. We test it with you at handover.
A site visit, a conversation about where the house is heading, then a written quote with the layout, sizes, brands and after-rebate price. No obligation.
