Solar panels in Bangor

As an estimate, a 6.6kW system starts from $7,410, a 10kW system starts from $10,300 and a 13.2kW system starts from $11,250 (with battery prices starting from $4,290), with the STC discount for postcode 2234 already taken off (incl. GST for metro areas; regional areas subject to freight and travel costs). Those are starting estimates for a straightforward install, not a fixed price — your written quote confirms the number once we have seen your roof, switchboard and connection.

Bangor is in STC Zone 3, rating 1.382. In 2026 a 6.6kW system creates 45 certificates, worth roughly $1,710 off the price, and a 10kW system 69 certificates, roughly $2,622. The discount shrinks each January until the scheme ends in 2030, and the exact amount depends on the certificate market on your installation date.

We deliberately don't answer that with a name, because the answer changes and we would be wrong within months. What is worth knowing is the shape of it: on the figures we use across this site, a typical NSW household pays around 32c for a kWh it buys and is paid around 5c for a kWh it exports — roughly 6 times more value in using your own generation than in selling it. A headline feed-in rate is also often paired with higher usage rates, so compare the whole plan rather than the one number. Your retailer is your choice and you can change it any time without touching the system.

Usually yes, but for a different reason than people expect. A larger array does not just export more — it covers more of your own load through more of the day, including cloudy mornings and winter afternoons when a small system produces very little. The extra panels are also the cheapest part of the job, because the labour, the scaffolding, the inverter and the paperwork barely change between 6.6kW and 10kW. What a low feed-in rate really argues for is using more of it yourself: shifting the dishwasher, the washing machine and the pool pump into daylight, and eventually a battery.

We would not. The long-term trend across the market has been downward as more rooftop solar has been installed, not upward, and every year you wait is a year of bills you have already paid. The rebate works against waiting too: the STC discount steps down each January until the scheme ends in 2030, so the same system costs a little more each year. If there is a reason to wait in your case — a roof due for replacement, a house you are selling — we will tell you.

On a flexible export connection, a complying system up to 30kW is automatically approved to export up to 10kW per phase. On a fixed export connection, the approval is 3kW per system. The rules are the same across the 2234 postcode, and the NSW Emergency Backstop Mechanism is being phased in by postcode from 30 November 2026 with full implementation by 22 February 2027 — our Menai page covers that in detail.

Yes. We cover the whole 2234 postcode, including Illawong, Alfords Point, Barden Ridge, as well as Menai. The pricing, the process and the connection paperwork are the same right across it.