Ballina is one of the best places on the coast to own solar, and one of the easiest places to be sold the wrong system. Tom Sexton’s local team has installed across Ballina, Lennox Head, Alstonville and Wollongbar for more than twelve years, and we start every quote with your bills, not a package price. If you are home during the day, the right system looks different from your neighbour’s, and it usually pays back faster.
A lot of Ballina homes are occupied through the day: retirees, people working from home, and households running air conditioning, pools and washing when the sun is up. That is the single best situation for solar, because every kilowatt hour you use as it is generated is a kilowatt hour you never buy from the grid. Feed in tariffs are modest, so we design for self consumption first: sizing the array to your daytime load and setting up monitoring so you can shift usage into the sunny hours.
If your evenings are heavy too, a battery can carry the daytime surplus through to dinner and beyond. We will tell you honestly whether it stacks up for your usage, and the system we install will be ready for one either way.
Much of Ballina and Lennox Head sits on flat coastal blocks with clear northerly aspect and very little overshadowing. That is about as good as solar sites get in northern NSW, and it means most Ballina roofs can host a properly sized array without compromise.
The trade off is salt. Between the river mouth and the beach, salt laden air works on fasteners, rail and isolators year round. The panel ranges we install are salt mist tested by their manufacturers, and our team does the mounting and electrical isolation work to suit the conditions, because hardware that survives inland does not always survive here.
Plenty of Ballina homes have been repaired or rebuilt since the 2022 floods, and we still find switchboards that were patched rather than brought up to standard. Solar cannot legally or safely connect to a board that is not compliant, so we inspect yours as part of every quote. If it needs upgrading we price that work up front, in writing, before anything goes on the roof. For homes being rebuilt, it is also the cheapest moment to position the board and inverter sensibly, and we are happy to talk to your builder or electrician directly.
We install AIKO, Phono Solar and Trina Solar, all current N type technology with 25 year or better product warranties on the residential ranges. Every specification we publish comes straight from the manufacturer datasheets, and our panel brand comparison lays the verified numbers out side by side.
Not sure where to start? Call 0420 141 078 and talk it through with the people who will actually do the install.
Tell us about your place and your bills, and we organise a quick consultation.
We size for your daytime usage and your roof, and give you a fixed quote.
Our team installs everything, switchboard work included, usually in one or two days.
We set up monitoring and show you how to run your appliances on sunshine.
Local support from a crew twenty minutes up the road, for the life of the system.
The honest answer is a fixed quote after we have seen your roof and switchboard, especially on flood affected homes. As a guide, though, here is our typical starting point. Call 0420 141 078 for a realistic range over the phone.
Indicative starting price only, for a straightforward single storey tin roof install with a compliant switchboard. Any board upgrade is priced separately and in writing before we start. Federal small-scale certificate incentives typically reduce the out of pocket cost further, and we handle that paperwork for you.
Yes, in your favour. Because you use power while the sun is generating it, you capture the full retail value of your solar rather than the small feed in rate. We size the array around your actual daytime load and appliances, which often means a better return from a sensibly sized system than from the biggest one that fits on the roof.
In most cases yes, but we check first. We inspect the switchboard and metering as part of your quote, and if anything needs bringing up to standard before solar can connect, we price that clearly up front. If your home is still being rebuilt, involving us early lets the board, inverter location and cable runs be planned properly rather than retrofitted.
If most of your usage is in daylight hours, solar alone does the heavy lifting and a battery is optional rather than essential. If your evenings are heavy, or blackout backup matters to you, a battery earns its keep. Every system we install is designed with a clear upgrade path, so you can start with panels and add storage later without redoing work.
Ballina roofs sit in salt laden air year round. These are genuine jobs built for those conditions.
Corrugated metal, coastal exposure, mounted with salt in mind.
Neat rows and correct rail spacing, which is what survives a storm season.
Solar is now the default on coastal streets like these.
An obligation free quote sized from your actual bills, not a package deal.
Tell us what you are after and we will come back to you within one business day with real numbers for your property. Prefer to talk? Call 0420 141 078.
