Most Officer houses went up in the last fifteen years or so, with tidy roofs and modern switchboards. We design solar and storage around how your household uses power, gas or no gas, and our own A-Grade electricians install it from the depot in Somerville, about 30 minutes away.
Officer has grown from a railway station and a strip of farms into one of the busiest growth areas in Cardinia Shire, and nearly all of its housing is estate-built. That makes the roofs predictable: concrete tile or Colorbond, a garage at the front, often a second storey, and a switchboard modern enough to take a battery without a rebuild. The variable is the household, not the house.
The biggest difference between Officer homes is gas. Houses built through the 2010s mostly came with gas ducted heating and gas hot water, so the solar we design for them has to cover today's load and the day those appliances are replaced. Houses on the newest streets were built with no gas connection at all. Heating, hot water and cooking are already on the meter, the evening peak is bigger as a result, and that is exactly the load a battery is built for.
Estate blocks are compact, so the battery usually goes on the garage wall or inside the garage near the switchboard, and the panel layout has to work around the short roof faces of a two-storey design. We check all of it on one site visit, alongside the rest of our work in Officer.
These are the choices that change the price and the result on an Officer home. We make them with you at the site visit.
Jinko and Aiko panels laid out face by face. Estate roofs in Officer often have one large rear face and several small ones over the garage and porch, so we count what each face will produce through the day rather than filling every square metre.
Sigenergy, GoodWe, Tesla Powerwall or Sungrow, sized to the 4pm to 9pm stretch. A home that still heats with gas needs less storage than an all-electric one, so we size it from your bills and appliances, not from a standard package.
Many Officer homes are single phase and some newer builds are three phase. The hybrid inverter is chosen to match what you have, and the export application goes to the network before we book a date.
Plenty of Officer garages already have an EV in them. A Tesla Wall Connector, Sigenergy or GoodWe charger can go in on the same job, set to charge from surplus solar, and we leave space on the board for a heat pump or induction cooktop later.
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.
None of these is in Officer itself. They are in Beaconsfield, Berwick and Clyde North, on homes built the same way.
Next door in Beaconsfield, 24 all-black Aiko panels on a tin roof feed a single-phase GoodWe inverter, with five GoodWe battery modules stacked against the brick for 41.6kWh of storage.
A five-bedroom all-electric home in Berwick, the same kind of house now going up on Officer's newest streets. With 40.3kWh stored and a three-phase EV charger, it drew almost nothing from the grid on one of the hottest days of the year.
An estate home in Clyde North with 25 panels, a Sigenergy home energy system and a 22kW three-phase EV charger. The owner changed the configuration a few times before signing, and we reworked the quote each time.
Officer is about 30 minutes from Somerville, so the site visit and the install are both easy to book.
Before we look at the roof we ask what runs on gas, what runs on power and what you plan to change, because that decides the battery size.
Roof faces, pitch and access, the supply phase, the switchboard and the best wall for the battery, usually in the garage.
Panel layout, inverter, battery and any EV charger, with one fixed price and the rebates you qualify for already taken off.
We lodge the network export application and, where you are eligible, the Solar Victoria paperwork, then lock in an install date.
Our own crew fits the system, usually in a day, then sets up the app, tests the backup circuits and issues the Certificate of Electrical Safety.
Three incentives, each with its own rules. We check which ones apply to your address before the quote is written.
Cheaper Home Batteries takes around 30 percent off an approved battery, with no income test. On an all-electric Officer home with a larger battery it is usually the biggest single saving.
Federal small-scale technology certificates come off the panel price at the point of sale. We handle them, so there is nothing to claim later.
Open to eligible owner-occupiers and limited to solar panels and inverters. It does not cover batteries: the Solar Victoria battery rebate and loan both closed in 2025. Household income, property value and any earlier claim at the address decide eligibility.
Solar is often the first electric upgrade in an Officer home, not the last.
When the gas ducted heater or the gas hot water is due, we replace those as well. See heating and cooling in Officer.
Nobody on your roof is a subcontractor. SAA accredited, New Energy Tech Approved Seller, electrical licence REC 32300.
Written-up systems in Beaconsfield, Berwick and Clyde North, on estate homes built in the same years as Officer's.
The depot is in Somerville, about half an hour away, so a follow-up visit is a short drive rather than a special trip.
Live Google reviews. Look for the Sigenergy, GoodWe and Powerwall jobs.
Questions we hear from Officer owners. Anything not covered here, call 0466 355 441.
Bigger than for a similar home with gas, because heating, hot water and cooking all draw power in the evening. The all-electric Berwick home on this page carries 40.3kWh. We size yours from your actual usage and appliances.
No. A couple of bills, the appliance list and how many people are home during the day are enough to design from. If you want to be cautious, start with a battery that can take extra modules later.
Where the garage roof is part of the main roof and faces a useful direction, yes. On many Officer designs it is one of the better faces, and we include it in the layout if it adds real output.
Not always. It goes where the rules allow and as close to the switchboard as practical, which in most Officer homes is a garage wall, inside or out. Bollards go in where a car parks beside it.
Usually, though some boards need extra space for the new circuits. We check it at the site visit and include any work in the fixed price, so there are no surprises on install day.
Yes. If a car is coming, we choose an inverter that works with a charger and leave room on the board, so adding it later is a short job. Many owners fit it at the same time to save a second visit.
A site visit, then a written quote with the layout, battery size, brands and the price after rebates. No obligation.
