SARINA · SOUTH MACKAY
Solar for Sarina homes
Cane country and acreage installs. Cyclone-rated, Ergon paperwork done for you, local crew on every job.
48-hour fixed-quote turnaround for Mackay businesses.
How we work
From discovery call to handover, a six-stage path
01
Discovery call
Week 0. 30 minutes. We cover load profile, roof type, grid-connect feasibility.
02
Data analysis
Week 1 to 2. You hand over 12 months of interval data. We model three scenarios with payback and IRR.
03
Site assessment and quote
Week 2. 48-hour PDF delivery. Hardware, NPV, sensitivity analysis, finance options.
04
Sign and engineer
Week 3 to 6. Final design, Ergon lodgement, procurement. Deposit 20%, progress payments against milestones.
05
Install and commission
Week 7 to 9. On site 5 to 14 days depending on size. Zero shutdown of core operations.
06
Handover and monitor
Week 10. Monitoring live, O&M schedule set. First quarterly performance report lands at week 14.
Service areas
Mackay-local service hub, with project crews across the Whitsundays and Bowen Basin.
What our customers say
Reviews from real Mackay businesses and homes.
Glenn
Brad and the team installed a 27 kW system on our shed roof in three days. Quote was the third we got and the only one with a payback breakdown I could actually understand. Bill dropped from $1,800 to $340 the first quarter.
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Sarah
Replaced our old 6 kW with a 13 kW plus Tesla battery. Crew were on time every day, cleaned up the site, and walked me through the monitoring app on handover day. Three weeks later the export limit paperwork came through with zero chasing.
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Trent
Quoted for a switchboard upgrade and three-phase wiring at our workshop. Got the AS/NZS test certificates with the handover pack, RPEQ stamped. Nothing I had to chase up after. Will book them for the solar phase 2 next FY.
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Maria
Asked three installers for a commercial quote on our cold storage facility. Next Phase was the only one that asked for our interval data before quoting. The other two pitched random kW numbers. Their PDF had NPV, payback and a sensitivity band, exactly what we asked for.
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Linda
Storm took out two panels and damaged a rail. Brad came out Monday morning, replaced the panels under manufacturer warranty within the week. No drama, no upsell on extra work, no chasing the insurance for me.
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Dave
Honest sizing advice. We were ready to oversize the system and they talked us down to a 10 kW match for our daytime load, with batteries to come later. Saved us about $9k upfront and the payback math is still under six years.
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Before and after, Mackay installs
Real Mackay roofs before and after solar. Drag the slider to compare.
FAQs about solar in Sarina
Quick answers about response time, paperwork and system sizing for Sarina.
Yes. Sheds, packing rooms, irrigation pumps and farmhouses. Often a single hybrid system covers both the house and a workshop or pump. We size against your real load profile (which on a cane farm is wildly different from a town house) and quote both AC and DC coupled options.
Yes, temporarily. June-November burns can drop daily output by 10-30% on smoky days. The hardware is fine, just dirty after the season. We recommend a post-season clean (late November to December) included in our annual plan to recover the lost output.
All included at the same price. Hay Point coal-handling employees: we know the rotating-shift schedule and book installs around your days off. Just mention it on the form.
Yes. Sugar mills, packing sheds, harvester depots. Our 'Plane Creek Mill staff facilities' case study (120 kW, 9-week delivery) is in our portfolio. Industrial commercial gets the AEMO interval-data quote pathway, not the residential one.
We book around shift work. Site visits any day of the week, paperwork via email/SMS, sign-off can be remote with a witnessed signature. Install day is daylight only (work health and safety) but we don't need you on site if you've signed off the plan.
On larger blocks beyond grid reach, yes. Off-grid needs more battery (typically 20 to 50 kWh), a backup generator, and sometimes an inverter twice as big. Adds $25k to $50k vs grid-tied. We quote both and let you compare; for blocks with grid, grid-tied + battery usually wins on price.