Solar Energy - 6 steps to going solar...

1. Contact Us - a Sun Connect representative visits your home or business to assess your requirements and provide a quotation.

2. If you accept the quotation we take a deposit - we then process all paperwork on your behalf - application for government rebates as well as Synergy applications. You'll receive a government letter if / when the Government rebate is approved. *If the rebate is not approved, your deposit will be refunded in full.

3. Once the rebate is approved the final payment is due and an appointmentto install your solar energy system is arranged (government grant approval can take 30 - 60 days).

4. Synergy will send a letter acknowledging your application, this will be followed by a second letter approving your system to be connected to their network.

5. Yourself and the BCSE approved designer / installer will sign documentation to say the installation is satisfactorily completed.

6. You can now start to utilize your solar energy system. Synergy will connect your SmartPower Meter and you will also start exporting power.

Why go Solar?

Solar energy is the most constant, renewable, emissions-free source of energy.For decades we've known about it BUT up until very recently solar has not lived up to the promise it first showed because the equipment required was not efficient enough at converting sunlight into usable electricity and it was simply too expensive. Also, our existing supplies of carbon-based energy were too plentiful and cheap to compete with. Now, in Australia, solar has only finally in the last 12 months*, become not just an alternative... it has become the best alternative.  

The facts about solar electricity  

• The Australian federal gov't (Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) has recently introduced the Solar Credits Scheme which provides Renewable Energy Certificates with a multiplier effect to equate to up front payments / subsidies to householders to get solar on their roofs 

• Recent technology advances from the major solar energy equipment manufacturing countries in the world (Japan, Australia and Germany) have meant the cost of solar modules has been driven down - now the gap after the available rebate in Australia can be as little as $29 per week after $1,000 deposit and up to $5,000 of RECS discounted (conditions apply) as opposed to prices as recently as June 2007, which were as high as $26,000 for the same sized system! 

• Any solar energy your solar system produces whilst you are not utilizing it, can be fed back onto the grid (measured by a Smart Meter) and feed-in tariffs will mean that you are paid a premium price for the excess energy you supply to the grid 

• Germany and Japan are the leading users of solar energy systems in the world - and they don't even have a government rebate!

• Grid-supplied electricity is broken in to 2 costs - cost to generate the electricity, and cost to deliver the electricity. Our aging grid infrastructure is not being invested in enough to be maintained, and costs to continue its use will only rise. Solar energy does not have any delivery cost component

• In Australia, our grid-supplied electricity is one of the cheapest in the world. But this is starting to change, rapidly. Our electricity cost will adjust to become on par with the rest of the world in the next several years, and the trend for solar to become less expensive (already starting to happen in countries like Japan) out of pocket than on-grid supply will make it the number one choice in renewable energy

• All available energy on the planet is from sunlight, either direct through solar or in the form of stored sunlight (carbon-fuels that have built up over millions of years) or biochemical energy (from conversion of sunlight).

• According to projections, the energy consumption of China and India (combined making up a third of the world's population of 6 billion) is set to increase by between 3 and 5 times in the next 30 years. The population of the world is set to grow by approximately 4 billion by 2050. With carbon-based fuels already waning, if we don't collectively shift our reliance to solar energy now, we will be in for catastrophic shortages of energy (light, heat, transport, food).

Take the first step and contact Sun Connect and discover the many benefits of a renewable solar energy system in your home