Solar and batteries, heat pumps, reverse cycle and EV charging, designed as one system and installed by our own A-Grade electricians across Sunshine, Sunshine West and Braybrook. About 70 minutes from our depot in Somerville, rebates applied before you see the price.
Sunshine is postwar weatherboard and cream brick homes on full blocks, plus a growing number of apartments and townhouses around the station and Hampshire Road. The original homes are nearly all gas heated, and a lot still have their original switchboards.
Because Sunshine is on mains gas and inside the VEU area, the usual order of works is heating and hot water first for the rebates and the running-cost drop, then solar and a battery sized to the new electric load, then the cooktop, then the gas meter abolished. The west also runs hotter in summer than the bay and eastern suburbs, so the reverse cycle system that replaces the gas heater earns its keep twice a year.
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 our home electrification page; for Sunshine specifics, the fastest answer is a phone call.
Ordered by what pays back fastest in Sunshine's postwar housing: heating and hot water first, then solar and battery sized to the new electric load.
Original Sunshine homes are split between wall furnaces and later ducted gas. Split systems or ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts, replace the gas heating and add cooling, which matters in the west's hot summers. Installed by our ARC-licensed technicians, with the VEU discount on the quote.
Heat pump hot water is the easiest electrification win in Sunshine: one visit, old gas or electric tank out, Reclaim, iStore or Emerald heat pump in, gas capped, VEU discount and STCs on the quote. Timed to run through the middle of the day, it heats almost entirely on solar.
Sunshine roofs are simple and unshaded, and 6.6kW to 10kW is typical. Flat terrain and the west's extra sun hours make solar here good value. We lodge the Solar Victoria rebate and loan and the federal battery discount for you.
Taking a Sunshine home off gas is a sequence, not a single job: heating and hot water for the biggest savings, solar and a battery sized to the new electric load, induction last, then the gas meter abolished so the supply charge stops. We plan it at one inspection and quote each step with its rebates.
Once heating and hot water are electric, the cooktop is the last gas appliance in most Sunshine kitchens and the reason the supply charge keeps arriving. We supply and install the induction cooktop, run the dedicated circuit and cap the gas, usually in half a day.
Induction Cooktops across MelbourneSunshine is mostly single phase and original boards often need an upgrade first. Apartment owners get the owners corporation submission and load management handled by us. Certificate of Electrical Safety issued on every install.
EV Chargers across MelbourneSunshine has a large rental market, and we do the two-yearly electrical safety checks Victorian rental providers need, smoke alarm and switchboard compliance and the heating upgrades landlords are asked for. Per-property reports and tenant access handled by us.
Real Estate across MelbourneSunshine is one of the busiest infill suburbs in the west. We deliver electrical fit-outs and the all-electric package for builders, with fixed per-lot pricing.
Builders across MelbourneSomerville to Sunshine is about 70 minutes, so we plan every job to be done properly the first time.
Somerville to Sunshine is about 70 minutes, so we design the whole house at the first inspection: heating, hot water, solar, battery and switchboard, on one fixed quote.
Solar sized for the heat pump it will run, switchboard checked before the EV charger is quoted. One design for the whole Sunshine house.
Sunshine qualifies for the Victorian and federal incentives going. They are on the quote, and we do the paperwork.
REC 32300, BPC registered (132072), ARC licensed (AU 065299), SAA accredited. Every job signed off by the licensed tradesperson who did it.
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Yes. Sunshine is inside the VEU area, so heat pump hot water and reverse cycle heating and cooling both attract discounts, with the largest when you are replacing gas. We apply them on the quote.
In the west, yes. Summers are hotter than in the east and bay suburbs, and a reverse cycle system that replaces the gas heater gives you cooling at the same time, with the VEU discount applied.
Usually within the week. Our depot is in Somerville, about 70 minutes from Sunshine, and we plan western suburbs inspections so the drive does not hold your job up.
Nearly all of them. A standard Sunshine home takes 6.6kW to 10kW comfortably with little shade. We size to your usage and to whatever gas appliances you are replacing.
All of them. Sunshine West, Braybrook and Sunshine North and the rest of Melbourne's western suburbs, and across Melbourne. See the locations page for the full list.
Tell us what you are thinking about. We will book a free site inspection and send a written quote with rebates applied. No obligation.
