The Best Decision You Can Make
Solar Power is one of the few things you can do that profits you AND the planet. A properly sized, properly installed, and easily maintained solar power system will quickly repay your investment and give you a lifetime of benefits. You’ll make significant savings from your electricity bill – which we will accurately advise you of. Buying a solar power system is one of the best investments people make – if they choose the right provider and appropriate products.
Reasons to invest into Solar
Financial Benefits
Death, taxes, and electricity prices! Electricity prices are constantly increasing but a solar power system will shield you from absurd electricity bills. The solar power you generate reduces or eliminates the amount of power you draw from the grid during the day, and your electricity retailer will pay YOU for any excess power you generate
Generate Your Own Power
Your solar power system is your first big step towards energy independence. By generating your own power, you’re less reliant upon the electricity grid, and less beholden to your electricity retailer. Add in a battery (now, or later) and you can truly set yourself free!
Utilise government subsidies
You’ve paid a massive amount of tax in your lifetime. And, because electricity prices carry a hidden amount that funds the solar subsidy, if you don’t have a solar power system then you’re paying for people who do. Getting a solar system will help you access government money that every Australian is entitled to.
Residential Solar Simplified
Yarra Solar takes the pain away from going solar. Here’s how:
- We analyse your bill in-depth, discuss your future energy needs, assess how much solar your roof can hold, and evaluate what is the best sized system for you. All you need to do is give us a recent electricity bill. (Most other companies just size a system that maximises their profit)
- We discuss with you your purchasing preferences. Solar panels can last 25 years or longer, but their performance and lifetime will depend upon the quality of panel and inverter that you choose. We’ll recommend the right solution for you. (Most other companies will bewilder you with technical jargon that isn’t that important… or gloss over it entirely and give you shoddy product).
- We handle all the paperwork. That’s our job, not yours!
- We deliver what we promise!
- We are always striving to improve. We’ll listen to your feedback, and act upon it!
Solar Panels
What to look for in a solar panel
Your solar panels will be sitting in the harsh Australian sun for 25 years.
When choosing a panel, you get what you pay for, and there’s a trade-off between price and quality. We offer a range of top quality panels, and some medium-high quality panels that offer exceptional value. We avoid mid-quality panels and don’t scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to advertise a cheap price.
Perhaps most importantly, we will tell you exactly which panels you’re getting. You’re not buying a generic product, you’re getting exactly what you choose. And even though you’re not a solar expert yourself, our solar experts will help you choose the panel thats right for you.
The key parameters for you to consider are: warranty, how long the company has been operating, efficiency (if you’ve got a small roof), quality of componentry.
The panel brands we recommend are:
- LG (South Korean), because they’re a massive company (unlikely to go bust) and they offer the top quality panels on the market
- Winaico (Taiwan), because they’ve got the leading Net Promoter Score in the market, and offer fantastic quality and performance for an affordable price.
- Suntech or Jinko (Chinese), our leading value product, and because they’ve been around for a long time, are well represented in Australia, and are global leaders in volume
Inverters
What to look for in an inverter
The inverter is the workhorse of the system. It converts the DC electricity from the solar panels into AC power that useful in your home and which is synchronised to the grid for export.
The inverter is an electronic item, and we all have experienced electronics that have failed long before they should – and the solar industry has weeded out a lot of inverters that failed. That’s why a well-manufactured inverter is really important.
We only use high quality inverters.
Some inverters can also offer enhanced functionality that may be useful for your home.
Just like with panels, we will tell you exactly which inverters you’re getting. You’re not buying a generic product, you’re getting exactly what you choose. And even though you’re not a solar expert yourself, our solar experts will help you choose the inverter thats right for you.
The key parameters for you to consider are: warranty, how long the company has been operating, quality of componentry, and functionality.
The inverter brands we recommend are:
- Fronius (Austria), which is a brand with the best levels of service and support in Australia. It’s demonstrated a longstanding commitment to the Australian market, is diversified, has an impressive heritage, and regarded as the best company to deal with locally. Its product is great quality and performs impressively
- SolarEdge (Israel), which offers the best performance monitoring around, is the safest option, and which is the best option for shaded or complex roofs. Its technology is from Israel, a pioneer in intelligent techonlogy applications. A SolarEdge inverter optimises the output from every individual panel
- Enphase (USA), a micro-inverter which offers performance monitoring that rivals SolarEdge, and is the best option for shaded or complex roofs. You can even retrofit a single panel, which you can’t do with any other technology. Enphase microinverter optimises the output from every individual panel
- SMA (Germany) – the global leader in quality inverters, and a pioneer in the Australian market.
