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Will solar increase the value of your property? Solargain National Sales Manager Mark Stevens explains in the article, 'Sage advice to ensure savings with solar' by Owen Raymond in the weekend's edition of West Real Estate, that the right choice of solar system could increase the value of a home in a number of ways - and that it was important to choose a reputable company. To find out which solar package best suits your property - whether you are a homeowner or investor - give us a call or make an enquiry using the form. The full text from the article is below; Sage advice for saving with

Solargain is excited to announce our new partnership with Nectr, an award-winning 100% Carbon Neutral Electricity Provider dedicated to helping homeowners make the switch to renewable energy by offering innovative solutions that make Solar & Batteries more affordable & accessible. Through our partnership, Solargain customers can take advantage of Nectr's Interest-Free Green Loan, allowing the cost of Solargain systems to be spread over time without incurring any additional fees or charges. This makes it easier for homeowners to invest in a quality system without the large upfront cost, and

For the second year running, Solargain has been given the award for Most Satisfied Customers among solar installers by Canstar, a well recognised and highly respected consumer comparison and review platform.

Historically, generating excess energy from your rooftop solar system was financially beneficial as you could sell this excess energy back to the grid at a high rate. As an example, for systems installed before July 2011 in Western Australia, the excess electricity could be sold back to the grid for up to 47 cents per kWh exported. This meant you would have little to nothing to pay on your bills. Nowadays, the going rate for feed-in tariffs are as low as 2.5 cents, yet you are paying around 30 cents per kWh to buy that energy back in the evenings when your panels aren’t producing. With feed-in

Choosing the right solar battery can be difficult. So many terms get thrown your way, AC vs DC coupled, battery capacity, round-trip efficiency, depth of discharge. Unless you’re already a battery guru, it’s hard to know what it all means, and just as hard to make the right choices based on them. That’s why we decided to make this article, breaking down not just what we consider the best batteries available, but the best ones for different circumstances. If you’re adding a battery to an existing solar energy system, it’s important to know whether or not your inverter is a Hybrid inverter i.e

A common question we receive from our customers is how best to go about cleaning their panels, and whether or not it’s something they can do themselves. So here’s a guide of the key do’s and don’ts of cleaning your panels

Evergen Battery Optimisation is free for the lifetime of your battery system and requires no additional hardware to install. Evergen takes into consideration when you consume your electricity, the weather, your predicted solar production and your electricity tariff, enabling your battery to perform smarter.

Energy price increases are on the horizon. Now is the time to start considering home solar power to keep your bills under control.

In the past year wholesale power costs, that being the prices energy retailers pay to purchase power from energy producers such as power plants, have risen as much as 140%.

We’re proud to have partnered with the Evergen team in order to offer our customers the very best in home energy management systems free of charge for the lifetime of the system, when processed through Solargain. Saving our customers more money and making better use of their energy.

Following up on our recent video essay covering an installation we did in Echuca, our Wangaratta team also had the opportunity to work on a large ground-mounted solar installation with Clenergy.

Australia is the perfect place for solar. Homeowners have known this for some time, and the uptake of solar around the country has only continued to grow year on year on year. However, electricity networks sometimes struggle to keep up with the amount of excess solar energy being exported to the grid. That's where export limiting comes in.