Solar panel installation in Kapunda

Kapunda born of copper, powered by sun

Solar that suits Australia's oldest copper town

Kapunda has never been short of energy under the ground. It was copper that put the town on the map back in the 1840s: Australia's first commercial copper mine, dug out by Cornish hands who left behind the chimney stacks, the open cut and the miners' cottages you can still walk past on the heritage trail today. When the mine wound down, Kapunda didn't fold; it reinvented itself as a pastoral powerhouse, the home town of Sir Sidney Kidman the Cattle King and his famous horse sales. That same knack for getting on with things quietly suits rooftop solar down to the ground: these days the energy worth chasing in Kapunda comes straight off the roof.

Sitting around 80 kilometres north of Adelaide and tucked between the Barossa and the Clare valleys, Kapunda gets the long, hot, dry summers that make northern South Australia some of the best solar country in the nation. A well-designed system here generates exceptionally well right through the warmer months, exactly when air-conditioners, pool pumps and sheds are working hardest. With grid prices where they are and the federal Cheaper Home Batteries rebate now knocking around 30 per cent off a battery, a properly sized setup pays for itself faster than most Kapunda households expect, and a battery lets you bank the day's surplus for the cool evenings instead of feeding it back for next to nothing.

The roofs around here are as varied as the town's history. You've got the grand stone and brick character homes along Main Street and the streets near Dutton Park, double-storey verandahs and steeper pitches that need a careful eye; you've got the newer brick-veneer family homes on the estates spreading toward Allendale and the Hewett side; and right across the surrounding country there are farmhouses, sheds, dairies and pumps on rural blocks where mains power costs a fortune and reliability matters more than anything. We design every system around your actual roof, your bill and how your household or operation really uses power through the day. There's no one-size-fits-all quote, because no two Kapunda properties are the same.

Being genuinely local is the whole point of how we work. Our office and showroom are on Prescott Crescent at Gawler Belt, a short and easy run down the Thiele Highway, so we know the rooftops, the SA Power Networks side of things, and the way weather rolls across the Light region. When you ring us you talk to people who can actually get to you: for the quote, for the install, and years later if you ever need a hand. We handle all the grid-connection and rebate paperwork, fit premium tier-1 panels and inverters, and stand behind the job long after the scaffold comes down. That's the old-fashioned, answer-the-phone service Kapunda folk tend to appreciate, and it's the only way we know how to do it.

• CEC-accredited installers: our own team, not subcontractors you've never met
• Premium tier-1 panels, inverters & batteries only: built for SA's hot summers
• All SA Power Networks & rebate paperwork handled for you
• Solar, batteries & off-grid for homes, farms and businesses alike
• Local aftercare: we answer the phone and we're a short drive down the highway

Talk to a local: 08 8527 2691