Websites for Brisbane solar and battery installers that answer what South East Queensland buyers ask before they sign: whether an Energex dynamic connection would let them export more, whether a battery puts their 44c feed-in tariff at risk, and whether the body corporate can stop panels going on the unit block's roof.
Solar has been going onto Brisbane roofs for long enough that plenty of enquiries come from people who already own a system. An owner in Carindale might still be paid the 44c tariff on panels fitted in 2011 and want a battery without losing it. A family in North Lakes might want more capacity than a single-phase supply allows on a fixed export limit. A unit owner in Toowong might be wondering whether the committee can refuse. Each of them should find a page that speaks to their situation before they pick up the phone.
Energex offers dynamic connections as an alternative to a fixed export limit: the inverter keeps in touch with the network over the home's internet and its export limit moves with conditions on the local network. Energex sets those limits and the conditions that go with them, and they can change, so a comparison page is safer saying in plain words how the two options differ, naming the compliant inverters or gateway devices you fit and whether there's any extra cost, then linking to Energex's own page for the current figures. That answers what most upgrade enquiries are really asking without a number that dates.
The Queensland Government's Solar Bonus Scheme pays 44 cents per kWh to households that still qualify, until it expires on 1 July 2028. They lose it by increasing inverter capacity, adding panels beyond the inverter's rated capacity, moving house or putting anyone other than a spouse on the account, and a battery may only run while the 44c system isn't operating, at night or in a blackout, unless it has a separate connection. If you take these jobs, say what you check before quoting, and point owners to the government's advice to check with their distributor before adding panels, systems or batteries.
Single or three-phase supply (with a “not sure” option), whether there's reliable Wi-Fi where the inverter will hang, the size and age of any existing system, whether the household is on the 44c tariff, and an upload for a recent power bill, which carries the NMI identifying the connection point. Photos of the meter box and the existing inverter's label help too. The more you learn at enquiry, the fewer surprises at the site visit, and the fewer calls back to ask what kind of supply the house has.
Queensland Treasury says all new and replacement inverter energy systems, rooftop solar and batteries included, with aggregated capacity of 10 kVA or more must be fitted with a generation signalling device, so Energex can switch them off for a short time in an energy emergency. It also says the mechanism hasn't been used to date and can only be activated as a last resort at the direction of the Australian Energy Market Operator. One accurate paragraph, with the equipment you use to meet the rule, settles a buyer who has read that the network can switch their panels off.
Storm season brings its own kind of call. The Electrical Safety Office says a damaged solar or battery system should be inspected, repaired and checked by a licensed electrical contractor before it's re-commissioned, that owners shouldn't try to turn it off after a storm, flood or cyclone, and that panels keep producing voltage in daylight even with the grid down. Brisbane City Council asks households to know beforehand how to turn off their solar power. A storm page listing your inspection service, the isolation steps for the systems you install in your own words, and tap-to-call covers both moments.
South East Queensland has no regulated feed-in tariff: retailers set their own, and the Queensland Competition Authority sets one only for regional Queensland. Its report on the south-east found the average single-rate residential feed-in tariff had fallen to 3.4 c/kWh by the June quarter of 2025, with offers ranging from 1.0 to 8.0 c/kWh, and cautioned that the plan with the highest feed-in tariff won't necessarily give the cheapest bill. A battery page built around using more of the household's own solar into the evening is easier to stand behind than one that projects export income.
Installing and connecting solar is electrical work in Queensland, licensed by the Electrical Safety Office, and the business contracting for it needs an electrical contractor licence. Under the Electrical Safety Regulation 2026, its advertising, a website included, must give the licensed or registered business name, state that it's licensed under the Act and show the contractor licence number. Our Brisbane electricians page covers those rules, and our solar installers page covers SAA accreditation and the federal battery discount. What shapes a Brisbane solar site is the network. Energex runs the distribution network across about 25,000 square kilometres of South East Queensland, so the same connection rules, export options and backstop requirement apply whether the roof is in Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Redland or Moreton Bay. A site that names the suburbs and council areas you actually cover, rather than “all of SEQ”, tells a buyer in Springfield or Cleveland straight away whether you'll come out.
Queensland law limits how far a body corporate can stand in the way of solar. Chapter 8A of the Building Act 1975, as amended from 10 June 2022, means a body corporate in an apartment building, where the roof is common property, can refuse consent for solar only to protect the building's structural integrity, where there isn't enough roof space left for each other unit owner, or, for solar hot water, to stop piping noise. The Queensland Government says a refusal based only on the building looking less attractive should be reconsidered, and unresolved disputes go to the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management. On a standard format plan, common for townhouses, the roof is usually part of the lot, but by-laws often still require approval for changes to the external appearance. If you quote for these jobs, a page for owners and committees, saying what you need from them before quoting, earns its place.
Older houses raise a different question. Brisbane's local heritage places are mapped on the Heritage overlay in City Plan 2014, and Council's General Exemption Certificate for those places lets owners install services such as solar panels without an application only if the new equipment and service lines can't be seen from the street and don't intrude on views to or from the place. Fixings must be reversible, under 16 mm in diameter and kept to the minimum, and they can't go into face brick or stone except through the mortar joints. Anything outside those conditions needs a Heritage Exemption Certificate, which means an application, a fee and Council approval before work starts. If you've installed on heritage-listed homes, photos of discreet rear-facing arrays and a line on how you handle those conditions will be read closely.
We're a web design team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, working with Queensland businesses by phone and email. We haven't built a site for a solar or battery company, and we won't present other work as if it were. Our Queensland clients include a plumber and gas fitter and a Bayside dance school, and every page described above is assembled from parts we've already built: upload forms, service pages with their own questions, galleries and tap-to-call.
No solar or battery company appears in our portfolio yet. These three sites show what a Brisbane solar site would borrow: a licensed Queensland trade business on a single page, a Brisbane client whose programs each get a page of their own, and a quote form that accepts uploads and shows a fee range.
A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter, another trade where customers check the licence before they call. One page covers six services, with a 13-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, client testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call. A solar version would fill the gallery with finished roofs, battery installs and switchboards.
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A dance school at Thorneside on Brisbane's Bayside, so not a trade, but one of our Brisbane clients. Its 12 pages give each program and the diploma a page of their own, with a timetable, a filterable gallery, FAQs and an online enrolment form. The same structure would give batteries, 44c upgrades and body corporate jobs a page each.
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Adelaide structural engineers whose quote form shows an indicative fee range and takes file uploads. On a solar site that form would accept a power bill with the NMI on it, or photos of the meter box and the existing inverter's label. The site also carries four service pages and 16 articles.
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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For an electrician who adds solar and battery work to general jobs: the systems you fit, contractor licence and SAA details, the parts of South East Queensland you cover, and a quote form asking about phase, Wi-Fi and the 44c tariff.
Room for batteries and 44c upgrades
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A home page, a batteries page covering 44c customers and dynamic connections, and a page for unit owners, body corporates and storm-damage checks.
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Separate pages for new systems, batteries, 44c upgrades, dynamic connections, body corporate jobs, storm inspections and commercial roofs, plus an about page naming your electricians.
Not if it's put plainly: the system talks to Energex over the home internet, and in return its export limit can move with what the local network can take, rather than sitting at one fixed figure. Say which inverters or gateways you use, whether there's any extra cost and what happens if the household's internet drops out, then link to Energex's dynamic connections page (opens in a new tab) for the current limits. Energex can change those, and a link keeps your page right.
No. Queensland's Battery Booster rebate stopped taking applications in May 2024, so any page still promoting it should come down. The discount buyers can get now is the federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program, which our solar installers page explains. Date that paragraph and link to the Clean Energy Regulator rather than print a figure that steps down on a published schedule.
Give them a section of their own. Set out what ends the tariff in the Queensland Government's terms: a bigger inverter, panels beyond the inverter's rating, a change of account holder other than a spouse, or a battery running while the 44c system is operating. Then describe the options you actually offer, in your words, and link to the Solar Bonus Scheme page (opens in a new tab). When the scheme ends on 1 July 2028, rewording that section is a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
Who you need to hear from (the committee, the body corporate manager or a single owner), what you need before quoting, such as roof access details and the scheme's by-laws, and a short note that Queensland's Building Act limits the grounds on which a body corporate can refuse solar on an apartment building. Link to the Queensland Government's guidance rather than interpreting it; a solar page shouldn't read like legal advice.
Not in practice. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) team working with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including a Queensland plumber and a Brisbane dance school. You send your licence number, SAA details, product list and the suburbs you cover; we send back a draft link you can check on your phone. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your electrical contractor licence number, your installers' SAA accreditation, the inverters and batteries you fit, the suburbs you cover and a few photos of finished roofs. We'll quote first and build the draft before you pay anything.
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