Park OrchardsPark Orchards, from the switchboard up
Park Orchards sits in the City of Manningham area, about 50 km and 60 minutes from our Somerville depot, next to Warranwood, Ringwood North and Donvale. Most of the housing went up between the 1960s and the 1980s: brick veneer on a slab or stumps, a ducted gas heater in the roof and a gas storage tank against the side wall. It is the most common kind of house we electrify, and the one where the savings are largest.
With no mains gas to remove, the Park Orchards plan is about generation and storage: a solar array sized for the property, a battery big enough for the evening and for outages, heat pump hot water timed to the solar, and an EV charger where the cars are. Solar Victoria rebates and loans and the federal battery discount all apply, and three-phase supply where it exists opens up larger systems.
Everything on this page is done by Powerband employees, not subcontractors, and quoted as a fixed after-rebate price after a free site inspection. For the full picture of how we stage a house off gas, see home electrification; for Park Orchards specifics, the fastest answer is a phone call.