We start with your power bill

Most people are handed a product and a price. We start with your power bill. At a 90-minute consultation in your home we audit the bill and work out a detailed return on investment for your household.

We look at your heating and cooling, how your energy use changes through the year, how much you rely on gas, any solar or battery you already have, and what you plan to add later, such as an EV.

Then we set the order. If you already have solar, we help you use it better. If you want to get off gas, we show you the sequence. You should not spend money upgrading the wrong appliance first.

Our reviews keep coming back to the same thing: people were given time.

• “The person that gave us the quote spent a long time explaining everything to us… they were not the cheapest but the service was second to none.” Robert F., Google review
• “From the first visit by Lionel who spent 3 hours going over everything in a clear easy to understand manner…” John G., Google review
• “Danny was friendly and knowledgeable and didn’t make me feel like I was rushing into anything I didn’t need.” J., Google review

Solar panels, home batteries, heat pump hot water, reverse cycle air conditioning, EV chargers, pool heat pumps and backup generators. We also take whole homes off gas, one sensible step at a time.

Because we work across all of these, each system is planned around the others. Homeowners come first, and we also work with businesses. See our commercial projects.

A warranty is only as good as the business behind it. Westside Energy is SA owned and operated, with an office in Kent Town and more than 20 years of solar installation experience.

We have a local customer service centre and a 24/7 service hotline on 08 8451 2120. Our SA electrical contractor licence is 353970. We are a New Energy Tech Consumer Code Approved Seller and hold Solar Accreditation Australia accreditation.

Chris Bull is our Managing Director and Darren Vonthethoff is our General Manager. You can read more about them on our experts page.

We pick staff for their character as well as their skills, because how they behave in your home is how the company behaves. We run internal quality assurance on our work, so it holds up over time.

We also handle the approvals. We work with the network operator and energy retailers on your behalf, so your system is approved and runs efficiently on the grid.

Systems are typically installed and commissioned to operate within these SA Power Networks guidelines.

• NICC270: Connection Requirements of Embedded Generation
• TS 129: Small EG Connections, capacity not exceeding 30 kW
• TS 130: Inverter Energy Systems above 3 kW and up to or equal to 200 kW
• TS 131: Inverter Energy Systems above 200 kW or any size rotating generating system

These are the standards our installations are typically designed around.

• AS 4509: Stand alone power systems
• AS 4086: Secondary batteries for SPS
• AS/NZS 3000: Electrical wiring rules
• AS 1768: Lightning protection
• AS/NZS 1170.2: Wind loads
• AS/NZS 5033: Installation of photovoltaic (PV) arrays
• AS 4777: Grid connection of energy systems via inverters
• AS 1359: General requirements for rotating electrical machines