Your home doesn’t need a standard solar package. It needs an energy system designed around how you actually live.
Polygon Energy designs and installs solar and battery systems for Canberra homes, taking into account your roof, shade, electricity usage, existing solar and future energy needs before recommending a system.
Whether you’re installing solar for the first time, adding a home battery or planning for an all electric home, we start with your property and what you want your energy system to achieve.
Designed around usable roof space, orientation, shade and expected energy production.
Store surplus solar for later use, manage time of use tariffs and provide selected blackout backup when the system is designed for it.
Already have solar? We assess your existing panels, inverter, meter, switchboard and export controls before recommending how battery storage should be integrated.
Planning a heat pump, hot water, induction cooking or electric heating? Future electricity demand can be factored into your solar and battery design.
Planning an EV? Charging requirements can be considered alongside solar generation, battery storage and other household electrical loads.
Canberra homes can present very different energy requirements.
Established suburbs can have mature trees, shaded or complex roofs, older switchboards, heritage considerations and existing solar systems.
At the same time, household electricity requirements are changing as more homes introduce electric heating, heat pump hot water, induction cooking, batteries and EVs.
A system that works for one Canberra home may therefore be completely wrong for another.
Polygon assesses the roof, shade, electricity supply, current consumption and expected future demand before equipment is selected.
Trees don’t automatically make a home unsuitable for solar.
But they make good system design more important.
Year round shade, roof orientation, usable roof planes, panel placement and inverter configuration should all be considered when estimating how much useful energy a system can produce.
But having a battery does not automatically mean your entire home will continue operating during a blackout.
Backup depends on usable battery capacity, inverter output, phase configuration, reserve settings and the circuits included in the backup design. Large loads such as ducted heating, air conditioning and EV charging may require different system configurations.
Depending on your household and system design, battery storage can help:
Solar isn’t limited to detached homes.
For apartment buildings, solar can potentially supply common areas, allocate energy to participating units, use approved energy sharing technology or form part of an embedded network arrangement.
The right approach depends on roof space, metering, ownership structure, existing electricity arrangements and how benefits will be shared between residents.
Eligible apartment buildings may also receive support through the ACT Solar for Apartments Program. The source material notes that batteries and EV chargers sit outside that particular program and require their own technical and commercial case.
Your solar system shouldn’t only account for what your home uses today.
If you’re planning to move from gas to electric appliances, add an EV, install heat pump hot water or increase heating and cooling loads, those changes can materially affect future electricity demand.
Polygon can consider these requirements together so your solar, battery and electrical infrastructure form part of one longer term energy plan.
Depending on eligibility and current program conditions, Canberra households may have access to federal or ACT support for solar, batteries and other energy upgrades.
Depending on eligibility and current program conditions, Canberra households may have access to federal or ACT support for solar, batteries and other energy upgrades.
Eligible ACT households may access low interest finance for qualifying upgrades including batteries, EV charging, efficient electric appliances and insulation.
Eligible owner occupiers may qualify for ACT rebates towards rooftop solar and certain electric appliance or insulation upgrades.
Eligible apartment buildings may be able to access financial support for rooftop solar through the ACT Solar for Apartments Program.
Depending on eligibility and current program conditions, Canberra households may have access to federal or ACT support for solar, batteries and other energy upgrades.
Roof, orientation, shade, heritage considerations where applicable, switchboard, supply phase, metering and existing solar.
Heating, hot water, induction cooking, EV charging and essential backup circuits.
Relevant approvals, export settings and Evoenergy requirements.
Solar, battery, electrification and resilience requirements considered together.
Monitoring, safety documentation, system commissioning and backup testing where included.
Potentially. Year round shade modelling and careful array design can distinguish manageable shade from a roof where solar may not perform sufficiently.
Often, yes. Your inverter, panels, meter, switchboard, export controls and safety compliance should first be reviewed. AC coupling may preserve an existing system in some cases, while replacing or reconfiguring older equipment may be more appropriate in others.
Only when the system has been designed for backup. Compatible equipment, isolation controls and appropriately designed backup circuits are required.
It may be possible. Heritage status, applicable guidelines, roof visibility and relevant planning requirements need to be checked for the individual property.
Yes, depending on roof space, structural capacity, metering, ownership arrangements and how solar benefits will be allocated between common areas and residents.
Yes. Future loads such as EV charging, heating, hot water and induction cooking can be considered when designing the solar and battery system.
Planning solar, adding a battery or moving towards an all electric home?
Start with your property, your energy usage and what you want the system to achieve.