Electrical engineering & solar energy

Clean Energy. Smart Future.

We design and install solar systems for homes, commercial premises and industrial sites — sized against measured consumption rather than a rule of thumb, and documented so anyone competent can inspect or extend the work.

  • Every system sized from measured consumption
  • Site survey before any proposal
  • Single-line diagram and as-built documentation at handover
  • Maintenance on systems we did not install

Sectors

Who we work for

The engineering changes with the site. A single-phase house and a three-phase factory share a technology and almost nothing else.

  • Homes

    Single-phase supply, air conditioning through the summer, and a bill that has become a planning problem. Sized against what the house actually draws, not its roof area.

  • Commercial premises

    Offices, retail, clinics and schools, where consumption happens in daylight and generation lines up with it — the load profile solar suits best.

  • Industrial sites

    Three-phase supply, motor loads, starting currents and power-factor penalties. The electrical scope here is as much of the job as the array.

  • Agricultural loads

    Tube wells and farm infrastructure, where supply is often weak or absent and the honest answer may be off-grid rather than on-grid.

Inside a system

What we actually install

A solar system is a chain, and it is only as good as the stage a proposal leaves out. This is what ours contains, in the order energy moves through it.

  1. 01

    Array and mounting

    Panels, structure and layout, set by orientation, shading and the roof they are actually going on.

  2. 02

    Inverter

    Matched to the array and to the connection phase, with headroom for the way the site loads it.

  3. 03

    Protection and earthing

    DC and AC isolation, surge protection, and an earthing arrangement designed rather than assumed.

  4. 04

    Distribution

    The existing board inspected and corrected, so generation is not added to a problem already there.

  5. 05

    Metering

    Bi-directional metering where net metering applies, and monitoring so output can be checked against design.

Start with a rough figure

Handover

What you are left holding

The documentation is part of the work, not an extra. It is also the fastest way to judge a quotation you have been given by someone else — ask which of these they hand over.

  • Single-line diagram

    The installation as built rather than as proposed, so the next person to open the board is not reading it for the first time.

  • Protection and earthing schedule

    Devices, ratings and the earthing arrangement, written down — the record that makes a future fault diagnosable.

  • Commissioning and test records

    Insulation resistance, earth continuity, polarity and the inverter’s commissioning parameters, recorded at handover.

  • Equipment documentation

    Datasheets, serial numbers and manufacturer warranty paperwork, registered in your name rather than ours.

  • Monitoring access

    How to read your own output, and what a normal day looks like for a system of your size in this season.

  • Operating notes

    What to check yourself each month, what to watch for, and the point at which something needs an engineer rather than a look.

Cost

What actually moves the price

Price guide

We publish no price list, because a figure quoted before a survey is a figure that changes after one. What we can set out honestly is the shape of the cost — which is also what lets you read anyone else’s quotation properly.

  • System size

    The largest single factor. Sizing accurately is the cheapest saving available, and oversizing is the most common way to pay for generation you never use.

  • Battery capacity

    Usually the most expensive part of a hybrid system, and driven by the hours of backup you ask for rather than by the size of the array.

  • Inverter type and phase

    On-grid or hybrid, single or three phase, and how much headroom the design leaves for the way the site loads it.

  • Mounting structure

    Flat roofs need frames and ballast, elevated structures need engineering, and wind loading is a design input rather than an afterthought.

  • Cable runs and civil work

    Distance from array to inverter to board, penetrations, trenching and containment. Quiet on a quotation, real on a site.

  • Condition of the existing installation

    Where the board, earthing or protection needs remedial work before generation can be added safely, that work is priced rather than skipped.

Electrical and power systems

The work that exists without solar

Electrical engineering

An array is a generator bolted onto an existing installation, and the installation decides whether that is safe. We take this scope on its own, for sites with no solar in the plan at all.

  • Load calculation and design

    Connected and diversified load, cable sizing, voltage drop, and a single-line diagram that matches what was built.

  • LT panels and distribution boards

    Distribution boards and low-tension panels specified, built, installed and labelled — including replacing boards that are no longer fit to extend.

  • Protection and earthing systems

    Breaker selection and discrimination, earthing and bonding, and surge protection where the exposure justifies it.

  • Power factor correction

    Capacitor banks sized from measured power factor, to remove the penalty an industrial bill quietly carries.

  • Backup and changeover

    Essential-load segregation, changeover and transfer arrangements, and integration of inverters or generators into the existing supply.

  • Energy audits and power quality

    Load profiling, voltage and harmonic checks, thermal inspection of connections, and a written list of what to fix first.

Planning figures

The numbers we design against

Published because a figure you can check is worth more than one you have to trust. Each is a conservative planning assumption for this region, not a promise about your site — the survey is what turns it into a real number.

Units per kW, per monthDerated for temperature, soiling and inverter losses
120
Peak sun hours a dayThe regional yield assumption behind the figure beside it
4
Unshaded roof area per kWAveraged across our published system sizes
100 sq ft
Standard sizes we quote against3 kW to 25 kW
5

Process

How it works

Four steps between an enquiry and a commissioned system. Nothing is priced before the site has been seen.

  1. 1

    Load assessment

    Your consumption, its daily shape, and your connection phase.

  2. 2

    Site survey

    Roof structure, orientation, shading, cable routes, and the condition of the existing installation.

  3. 3

    Design

    Array layout, protection, earthing, and a documented single-line diagram.

  4. 4

    Install and commission

    Installation, testing, commissioning, and as-built documentation at handover.

Choosing

On-grid, hybrid or off-grid

Read the full comparison

The first decision, and the one that moves cost the most. What follows is true of the system type itself; the trade-offs for your site are what the survey settles.

System typeDuring an outageBatteriesNet meteringTypically suited to
On-gridShuts down with the gridNoneYes — surplus is exportedSites that consume in daylight and want the lowest cost per kW
HybridCarries essential loads from batteriesYes — sized to the backup hours neededYes, where the design and approval allowHomes and premises that cannot simply stop when supply does
Off-gridUnaffected — there is no grid to loseYes — sized for autonomy, the largest cost in the systemNot applicableSites with no supply, or supply too poor to build on

System sizes

Start from what you consume

All system sizes

Roughly 120 units of monthly consumption per kW, as a planning figure.

Aftercare

What happens after handover

Maintenance and audits

A solar system is a twenty-five year asset. Most of what determines whether it behaves like one happens after the installers have left.

  • Cleaning and inspection

    Soiling costs output quietly, and a scheduled look at mountings, cable management and connections catches what a monitoring app cannot.

  • Output reviewed against design

    The point of a designed system is that there is a figure to compare against. A shortfall is a fault to find, not a season to accept.

  • Electrical inspection

    Connections checked for heating, protection devices tested, earthing verified — the parts of a system that fail without announcing it.

  • Battery health checks

    Capacity and state of health tracked over time, so a bank that is degrading is known about before the evening it stops carrying the load.

  • Fault diagnosis on any system

    Including systems we did not install. An installation nobody will return to is a common outcome here, and it is a fixable one.

  • Documentation kept current

    When something is changed, added or replaced, the diagram and records change with it — otherwise they stop being true within a year.

Why us

Engineering-led, and testable

We are an electrical engineering business that installs solar, rather than a solar business that hires electricians. Every line here is something we control and do, so you can hold us to it.

More about how we work

  • The size comes from measured consumption

    Bills, units and the daily shape of the load. A system sized from roof area or from a neighbour’s installation underperforms in exactly the hours that matter.

  • The existing installation is inspected first

    Generation added to undersized protection or poor earthing makes an existing problem worse. Where remedial work is needed, it is quoted rather than skipped.

  • Protection, earthing and cabling are designed

    Not inherited from the last job. Each is calculated for the site, and the calculation is part of what is handed over.

  • The work is documented at handover

    Single-line diagram, protection design and as-built documentation, so another competent engineer can inspect, maintain or extend it without reverse-engineering it.

  • We say when solar is not the answer

    Some sites need their wiring corrected, their tariff reviewed or their power factor fixed before generation is worth discussing.

Common questions

What size solar system do I need?

It depends on how much electricity you use and when you use it. As a planning figure, roughly 120 units of monthly consumption per kW of system. The sizing estimator applies that to your own bill or meter readings, and an engineer verifies it against the site before any proposal.

Will solar eliminate my electricity bill?

Rarely completely. Solar offsets consumption while the sun is up. Evening and overnight use still draws from the grid unless batteries are included, and most connections retain fixed charges regardless of consumption.

Does solar work during load shedding?

Only if the system is designed for it. A standard grid-tied system shuts down during an outage as a mandatory safety measure. A hybrid system with batteries keeps selected circuits running.

How long do solar panels last?

Modules are typically warranted for decades with a gradual decline in output, and inverters have a shorter service life than modules. Actual longevity depends as much on installation quality, mounting and maintenance as on the modules themselves.

Solar FAQs — sizing, cost and net metering

Get an indicative system size

Four short steps. You see the figure before you send anything.