Why was a local installer and a quality solar power system important to The Bakehouse in NSW?

The main objective of this project was to improve the bottom line by embracing solar energy. Although there is a cost, it will pay off in the long-term. The company wanted to work with local providers to ensure quick assistance when needed. They aimed for a high-quality installation to avoid revisiting the project.

The company used optimisers to ensure the entire string of panels performs at a high level, even on cloudy days. Although it was an additional cost, it's worth it since the system operates 365 days a year. It's essential to research and work with someone you're comfortable with to find an adequate system that will last for many years.

The main outcome was to improve our bottom line. Obviously there's a cost there but you've got to put that cost out there and endeavour that it's going to return in four or five or six years time. There's a lot of companies out there that want to provide solar to you and they are not locally based. We want to support local people, predominantly because it gives us the ability to make that phone call to them locally, and they will be here within half an hour. We wanted to do this project once. We don't want to do this project and come back to it and revisit it. We want to do it with quality and move on.

I think you've got to be be realistic to what the panels and the system's going to produce. And certainly when you get days that are cloudy the production is very minimised. So we've used optimisers but we've paired it on two panels, not individually, and we can see that on our live app of different panels that may drop off. But at least the entire string is performing at a high level. So the optimisers was an additional cost. But, when you look at something that's operating 365 days a year, that is soon outweighed by what it produces through the system.