Handy Volt designs, installs and maintains solar, battery storage and heat pump hot water systems — engineered as one clean-energy system, installed by licensed electricians, and sized to what your household actually uses.
Solar makes the power, a battery keeps it for after dark, and a heat pump turns the cheapest hours of the day into hot water. Take one, or let us design all three to work together.
Tier-1 panels and hybrid-ready inverters, laid out for your roof's real orientation, shading and daily load curve.
Store the sun you don't use at midday and run the house on it through the evening peak — plus keep the lights on when the grid drops.
A heat pump moves heat instead of making it, so it delivers the same hot showers on roughly a quarter of the electricity.
Handy Volt is a licensed Victorian electrical contractor. Every quote is drawn up by the same people who will be on your roof — which is why our systems are sized to your bill, not to a commission target.
Pick a system and answer a few questions about the property. You'll get a live price built from the same catalogue our installers quote from — and an estimate of what it saves off your bill each year.
Pick one or more. Buying together is cheaper than buying separately.
Only the things that genuinely move the price. Unsure of something? Say so — we check it rather than charge for it.
Not sure which size? Take the middle one — we'll say so if your bills suggest otherwise.
Most residential installs are finished inside three weeks, and you only deal with one team the whole way through.
We look at your bills, your roof on satellite and how your household actually uses power, then talk through the options — on the phone or at your kitchen table.
A full system layout, string plan and production forecast, with rebates and STCs already deducted. One page, one number, no asterisks.
Our own CEC-accredited crews. Most residential systems go in inside a day, the site is left clean and we walk you through the switchboard before we leave.
We lodge the grid connection, commission the system and set up monitoring on your phone so you can see every kilowatt-hour from day one.
In a typical Victorian home, heating water is around a quarter of the energy bill. A heat pump does the same job by moving warmth out of the air rather than burning through resistive elements or gas.
Handy Volt is a full electrical contractor, so the work around your clean-energy system is handled by the same crew.
7 kW and 22 kW wall chargers, load-balanced against your switchboard and set to charge off your solar.
Old ceramic fuses and undersized boards brought up to current standards with RCBO protection throughout.
Inverter faults, panel cleaning, isolator replacements and annual health checks — on systems we installed or inherited.
Circuit-level metering so you can see exactly which appliances are quietly eating your generation.
It depends far more on when you use power than on how much. A household that's out all day and cooks at night gets very different value from a 10 kW array than one with someone home, a pool pump and a heat pump running at midday. We read your last four bills, check the interval data where your meter provides it, and size the array to what you'll self-consume — then look at whether a battery closes the rest of the gap.
For some homes, clearly. For others, not quite. With feed-in tariffs low and evening rates high, a battery earns its keep when you have solid daytime generation and a heavy evening load — or when blackout backup matters to you regardless of the payback. We'll model both cases honestly and tell you if the numbers don't stack up for your household yet.
In the vast majority of homes, yes — it's a direct swap. The old unit comes out, the heat pump goes in on the same slab or a new one, and it connects to your existing hot water plumbing. If your gas hot water was the last gas appliance in the house, you also get the option of dropping the gas supply charge altogether.
Most solar and heat pump installs qualify for federal Small-scale Technology Certificates, which we assign and deduct from your quote so you never pay the full amount up front. Victorian households may also be eligible for state incentives depending on income, property value and whether the address has claimed before. Eligibility rules change, so we confirm what applies to your address in writing before you commit.
A standard residential solar install is a single day on site. Add a battery and it's usually a day and a half. Heat pump changeovers are typically half a day. The longer part is the paperwork either side — grid pre-approval before, and meter reconfiguration by your distributor after — which together usually run two to four weeks.
We're based in Wollert and cover metropolitan Melbourne — north, west, east and the bayside suburbs — plus Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and the Macedon Ranges. If you're further out, call us anyway; we schedule regional runs most months.
Send us a recent bill and a photo of your roof or switchboard. We'll come back with a proper design, a real number, and no obligation to go ahead.
