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    Battery retrofit · ACT 2905

    Quoted after looking at the house

    A homeowner with an existing array worked through an approved list, asked six companies, received four quotes, and noticed which of them had visited the house.

    A white Tesla home battery mounted on dark blue weatherboard beside an open door, with two people talking at a table inside the lit room

    What the customer wrote

    I reviewed all of the companies on the ACT Government approved list for a solar battery to add to my existing solar panel system. I sought quotes from the 6 best rated companies. From the 4 quotes I received I chose SunStak. The main reason I chose them was because they were the most responsive, helpful and reasonably priced, a couple of the others didn't even visit the house before quoting.
    Berceuse5 out of 5.Published on SolarQuotes

    System specifications

    Work
    Battery added to an existing array
    Approved list
    ACT Government battery scheme
    Quotes sought
    Six approached, four quoted
    Site visit
    Some competitors quoted without one

    About this job

    What a battery retrofit depends on

    Adding storage to an existing array is governed by what is already installed. The inverter decides whether the battery is AC or DC coupled. The switchboard decides whether backup circuits can be separated. The meter, the wall and the distance between them decide the cable. None of that is on the roof, and none of it is visible from the street.

    Why a visit changes the price

    A quote written without a visit assumes a standard house. Standard switchboard with spare ways, short cable run, a wall that will take the weight, no asbestos, no heritage overlay. When one of those assumptions fails, the number moves after the contract is signed. A quote written after a visit can be wrong too, but it is wrong about less.

    Comparing four quotes

    Battery quotes look alike on paper because the hardware list is short. What separates them is everything around it: who answered, who came out, who explained what the existing system could and could not do, and whether the price held. A homeowner comparing four of them is really comparing the process, because the product is the same box.

    How we work

    The job above ran the way every Sunstak job runs. Six steps, from the bill you send us to the day your system is switched on.

    1. A cyan sign board standing on a driveway, lettered sunstak above the words THIS HOUSE IS POWERED BY SUNSTAK with the address sunstak.com.au along the bottom, the front of a white car in the left foreground and timber steps with two orange traffic cones behind it

      Before the visit

      Send us two bills, one from summer and one from winter, and tell us roughly when your house is busy. Your own numbers are where the design starts.

    2. Two men reaching to shake hands on the front path of a brick house with solar panels on its roof, one of them in a dark t-shirt carrying a circular cyan mark, while a woman stands in the open front doorway behind them

      Site visit or phone consultation

      One of our energy geeks goes through the roof, the switchboard and the meter with you, at the house or over the phone. What goes where, what the roof can carry and whether the board has room all get settled here.

    3. Two people at a desk in an office, one pointing at a wide monitor showing an aerial view of a house with a solar panel layout drawn on its roof

      Customised design

      A Sunstak engineer designs the system in house. You get back a drawing of your own house with the equipment set out on it, and what decided where each piece went.

    4. A man at a timber desk holding a telephone handset to his ear, two monitors in front of him showing an aerial view of rooftops and a bar chart, beside a keyboard, an open notebook and a mug

      Quote approval

      Your quote lists every item with its model number, and the exclusions as plainly as the inclusions. There is nothing to sign on the day, and nothing is ordered until you approve it.

    5. A person standing on a tiled roof holding a large solar panel above their head against a blue sky, with another person's hand reaching up from the gutter below

      Installation

      We tell you up front what gets switched off on the day, and for how long.

    6. A single-storey timber-clad house on a dry rural block at golden hour, its pitched metal roof covered by a full array of solar panels, a white battery standing against the timber wall beside a car charger with its cable coiled, a dark grey car parked on the gravel driveway and gum trees and low hills behind

      Post-installation support

      Nobody leaves until the system is commissioned and the monitoring is running on your phone. After that, service and warranty go through the same office that did the install.

    More of the work

    Every one of them is a customer's own account of the job.

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      The spot stayed, the battery changed

      The standards decide where a battery can sit: clearances, the wall behind it, and the run back to the switchboard. Here the position the owner wanted stayed, and the battery changed to one rated to live outdoors. A plumber capped a disused gas line on the same visit.

      Everything was smooth from the initial quote, through to the installation. There was some initial back and forth about which type of battery to install and location. In the end my preferred location was not going to meet standards which then meant having to change the brand of battery to one that would be more suitable outdoors. This was all handled well by Michael and the team.
      Steve SolarQuotes
      Battery
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      Battery capacity
      13.5 kWh
      Siting
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      On the day
      Plumber capped a gas line
      A single white Tesla-badged battery mounted on the grey rendered wall of a house, beside a timber-clad corner and a tall narrow window, standing on a pale timber deck in hard sunlight

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      Sunstak have just added a second Tesla Powerwall battery to my system, which had been installed a year ago by another provider. … The quality and professionalism of the installation was particularly impressive. Several deficiencies in the installation of the existing battery by my previous supplier were rectified without cost or question, even though some were not apparent at the time of quoting.
      Peter SolarQuotes
      Battery
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      Battery capacity
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      Existing battery
      Fitted a year earlier by another provider
      Rectification
      Previous supplier's defects, no charge
      Two white Tesla-badged batteries standing side by side against a board-formed concrete retaining wall on a paved terrace, with ornamental grasses along the top of the wall and trees behind

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      A school hall in Wanniassa

      A school roof is a set-out problem with a deadline attached. The array had to be planned, delivered and commissioned inside the break before the new term, on a site coordinated by somebody else. Forty kilowatts of panels onto one long hall roof, in five days, with six people on it.

      Thank you for delivering this project before the start of a new school term
      Project Manager, Trinity Christian School Sunstak Capability Statement, July 2025
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      Overhead aerial view of four long rows of solar panels on the curved-ridge roof of a large school building, with a playground and a yellow climbing frame in the yard alongside

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      A temple in Lyneham

      The temple was referred by community members worried about its power bills: a large, draughty, hard-to-heat complex. Twenty kilowatts of solar and a forty-kilowatt-hour battery, with the meter board upgraded to carry it. The battery is there to hold the peak down, which on a commercial tariff is a separate charge from the energy.

      The Abbot is very pleased and wishes to pass on his appreciation and support to get this project delivered
      Project Manager, Wat Dhammadharo Sunstak Capability Statement, July 2025
      Solar
      20 kW
      Battery
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      Battery capacity
      40.5 kWh
      Switchboard
      Meter board upgraded
      Aerial view of solar panels across the tiled roof of a long brick building, with a spire-roofed hall beside it and gilded temple roofs among trees behind

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