Solar panels in Camden

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 2570 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. Older homes near the town centre sometimes need a switchboard upgrade, and larger blocks at Cobbitty or Grasmere can need a longer cable run — both are itemised in your written quote after we have seen the site.

Camden 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 13.2kW system 91 certificates, roughly $3,458. The discount shrinks each January until the scheme ends in 2030, and the exact amount depends on the certificate market on your installation date.

Usually not — in NSW most rooftop solar on a house is exempt development and needs no development application from Camden Council. Camden is the one place in the area where it is worth checking properly: the town centre and streets around it sit in a heritage conservation area, and there are individually listed properties as well. For those homes, panels visible from the street can need approval, and the usual answer is to lay them on a rear or side roof face instead. We check your address against the council's heritage maps before we quote, so you find out at the assessment rather than afterwards.

The distribution network that owns the poles and wires in your street approves it — not your retailer — and we lodge the application for you. That network also decides how much your system may export: on a flexible export connection, eligible customers can send up to 10kW per phase back to the grid most of the time, while a fixed export limit caps exports at 1.5kW. Many older Camden homes are single-phase, so that 10kW is the whole allowance rather than 10kW three times over — worth knowing before you size a large system.

Yes. Rural blocks in the 2570 postcode often suit a bigger system than a suburban roof does — there is usually more roof, more room to face panels north, and a pump, workshop or tank system to soak up the daytime generation. Shed roofs are fine as long as the structure is sound and the cable run back to the main switchboard is workable. We measure that run at the assessment, because on acreage it is the cost that varies most.

Yes. We cover the whole 2570 postcode, including Elderslie, Camden South, Cobbitty, Grasmere. The pricing, the process and the connection paperwork are the same right across the postcode — only the heritage check differs, and that applies to a handful of streets rather than whole suburbs.