Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

Off-grid, solar & batteries in Lake Macquarie

Rooftop solar, home batteries and EV chargers around the lake, from Toronto and Morisset to Charlestown and Swansea.

Kemp Energy solar and battery installation
What we do here

Solar, battery and off-grid work around Lake Macquarie

Tesla Powerwall battery installed on a Hunter Valley home

Batteries

Use your own solar after sundown and ride out the next outage without missing a beat. Tesla, Sungrow, BYD, Deye and Fox ESS — sized against your actual usage pattern, not a brochure number.

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All-black Jinko solar array on a rural shed roof, Quorrobolong NSW

Residential Systems

Grid-tied solar with a battery for self-consumption and outage backup. The default for new Hunter Valley homes — sized against your own usage so the system pays for itself on the power you actually use.

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Porsche EV wall charger paired with a SolarEdge inverter on a Kemp Energy install

EV Charging Systems

Charge your EV from your own roof. We size your solar to comfortably cover daily driving on top of household load, install OCPP-compliant wall chargers (Porsche, Tesla, generic Type 2), and tie the charger into your existing inverter monitoring.

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Fronius Primo inverters paired with a Victron Quattro in an off-grid plant room, Quorrobolong NSW

Off-Grid Systems

Standalone power for properties beyond the grid. We design and install systems that run a whole homestead — pumps, welders, fridges, freezers — through the worst week of weather, with generator backup to fill the gaps.

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Local notes

What Lake Macquarie jobs usually look like

Lakeside and coastal suburbs (Swansea, Belmont, Caves Beach, Wangi Wangi) live with salt air, so racking, fixings and inverter placement are chosen with that in mind.

The older suburbs (Toronto, Cardiff, Charlestown, Warners Bay) have a lot of early solar that's due for a rethink: a hybrid inverter, a battery and often more panels.

West of the lake, around Cooranbong, Martinsville, Mandalong and Dora Creek, blocks get bigger and some are beyond the network. We design complete off-grid systems there as well.

Suburbs and villages we cover around Lake Macquarie

  • Toronto
  • Morisset
  • Cooranbong
  • Warners Bay
  • Charlestown
  • Belmont
  • Swansea
  • Cardiff
  • Glendale
  • Speers Point
  • Wangi Wangi
  • Rathmines
  • Dora Creek
  • Cameron Park
  • Edgeworth
  • West Wallsend
  • Caves Beach
  • Catherine Hill Bay
  • Martinsville
  • Mandalong
Our work

The kind of systems we build

Residential rooftop solar array
Residential rooftop solar
Tesla Powerwall home battery mounted on a brick wall
Tesla Powerwall install
Solis hybrid inverter and battery on a brick garage wall
Hybrid inverter and battery

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Questions

Working with us in Lake Macquarie

Do you actually come out to Lake Macquarie?

Yes. We work across Lake Macquarie and the surrounding area. Site visits are done in person by one of the family, not a salesperson, and the same crew does the install.

Do you do both off-grid and grid-connected work in Lake Macquarie?

Yes. We're SAA accredited for grid-connected solar, battery storage and stand-alone power systems, so whether you're on the network or a long way from it, one design and one crew covers it. Everything is quoted in writing before we start.

What happens if something goes wrong later?

You call the same number and speak to the same people who installed it. We support what we install for the life of the system, and we'll tell you straight what's wrong and what it'll take to fix.

Do you service systems you didn't install?

Yes. If you've got an existing system in Lake Macquarie that's underperforming or out of warranty support, we'll service it, repair it, or tell you honestly when it's time to replace it.

Talk to us about your place in Lake Macquarie

A few details and one of the family will call or email you back.

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📞 1300 748 477