Best solar installers in Joondalup & Perth’s northern suburbs (2026)
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Rooftop solar is the one trade on this site where the paperwork matters more than the star rating. Anyone can call themselves a solar company, but only an installer accredited by Solar Accreditation Australia can sign off a system that earns you the federal certificates, and in Western Australia the electrical work itself has to be done under a licence issued by Building and Energy. So this ranking is filtered before it is scored: every business below is a current New Energy Tech Consumer Code Approved Seller with a verifiable street address in Perth’s northern suburbs. Only then did we rank them on Google review rating and volume.
Featured installers
This slot is reserved for a Blue Collar Business member operating in Joondalup, Wanneroo or the northern corridor. It is a paid placement, it sits outside the ranking below, and we label it every time so you always know which is which.
Get a Featured spot ▸e-Solar Pty Ltd
Based at 22 Canham Way, Greenwood, e-Solar is a New Energy Tech Approved Seller and has been since 30 June 2025. Its own site claims twenty-three years in the Perth solar industry, and the review record is consistent with that: 194 reviews at 4.9 is the highest rating-times-volume combination we found anywhere in the northern suburbs, and it is the only operator in this ranking whose NETCC listing covers the full spread of technologies, from solar PV and batteries through to power purchase agreements, wind, EV charging, energy management, virtual power plants and microgrids. Practically, the useful thing about e-Solar for a northern-suburbs homeowner is the repair side. A large share of the Perth market is systems installed five to twelve years ago by companies that no longer trade, and a business that will service somebody else’s inverter or replace individual panels is worth more to that homeowner than a business that only sells new installations. Read the quote carefully all the same: the breadth of the offering means the first proposal you receive may be larger than the one you actually need.
Find solar installers in the directory ▸Perth Solar Force
584 reviews is not a number you see often in a WA trade. To put it in perspective, it is more Google reviews than every plasterer we have ranked in Western Australia put together. Perth Solar Force operates from 17 Niche Parade, Wangara, and appears on the New Energy Tech register as Solar Force (Perth, Southwest, Geraldton), a signatory since 23 November 2018 under the predecessor code. It finishes second rather than first only because its 4.8 average sits a tenth below e-Solar; on volume alone it is the clear leader. Volume of that order cuts both ways and you should read it as such. With 584 reviews there are unhappy ones in there, and the pattern worth checking before you sign is the post-installation one: monitoring set-up, warranty claims and how quickly somebody comes back when an inverter faults. The company publishes a ten-year savings guarantee and a twenty-five year workmanship warranty on its own site, which is a longer written commitment than most, and it is worth asking exactly what each one covers.
Find solar installers in the directory ▸Solaire Connect
Solaire Connect is the only business in this ranking with two verified addresses inside the cluster. Its head office is U5/10 Dillington Pass, Landsdale, and the New Energy Tech register lists a second Western Australian address at 3/101 Winton Road, Joondalup. That matters for a Joondalup homeowner in a very ordinary way: a company with a physical presence in your own suburb is easier to get back for a warranty visit than one that services you from thirty kilometres away. It has been a code signatory since 20 August 2018, again under the predecessor scheme, and its own site describes seventeen years of family ownership in WA. The 4.8 average across 158 reviews is a genuinely strong record and sits within a tenth of the two businesses above it, so treat the gap between ranks two and three as narrow rather than decisive. Its NETCC listing also covers energy management, virtual power plants and microgrids, which is the profile of a company set up for battery and export-control work rather than panels alone.
Find solar installers in the directory ▸Solar Imperium
Solar Imperium is the interesting case in this ranking, and worth explaining rather than glossing over. Its Google listing carries a flawless 5.0 across 40 reviews but no street address at all, and on our normal rules a listing with no verifiable base gets cut, because a business with no address cannot be placed in a suburb and a service-area pin proves nothing. What rescued it here is the credential check we run first: the New Energy Tech Consumer Code register lists Solar Imperium with a head office at 8 Hopman Rise, Clarkson, and a signatory date of 22 September 2025. A national, ACCC-authorised register naming a specific suburb is stronger evidence than a Google pin, so the operator is ranked on that basis and the caveat is stated here rather than hidden. The record is younger and thinner than the three above it, which is exactly why it sits fourth despite the perfect average. Forty reviews is a real track record, but it is not a decade of one.
Find solar installers in the directory ▸Perth Solar Direct
Perth Solar Direct trades from 17/88 Lakeside Drive in Joondalup, with a head office listed on the national register at U4 47 Prindiville Drive, Wangara. It became a New Energy Tech Approved Seller on 20 June 2024, the most recent of the five, and its register entry shows it operating in Victoria as well as Western Australia. Sixteen reviews is a small sample and we are not going to pretend otherwise; at 4.8 it clears our rating floor comfortably but the volume is a fraction of everything above it, which is the entire reason it ranks fifth rather than higher. It earns its place because the credential is current and both addresses check out, and because a Joondalup shopfront is a genuine convenience if you would rather talk to somebody across a counter than over the phone. If you shortlist it, weight the conversation more heavily than the star rating, and ask to see two or three local installations from the past twelve months.
Find solar installers in the directory ▸How we ranked these solar installers
Every business here had to clear a credential gate before a single review was counted. We searched each name against the New Energy Tech Consumer Code register of Approved Sellers, the ACCC-authorised scheme administered by the Clean Energy Council that replaced the old Approved Solar Retailer program in February 2023, and cut anyone who was not listed. After that we scored the survivors with the same weighted formula we use everywhere on this site, which pulls small samples back toward the middle so that one business with three five-star reviews cannot leapfrog one with hundreds. We also required a street address we could verify, either on the Google listing or on the national register, and we excluded supply businesses, electricians who mention solar in passing, and Perth-wide brands with no base in the northern suburbs.
What a WA solar installer must actually hold
This is the part most comparison pages skip, and it is the reason the credential gate above exists. There are three separate requirements and a company can satisfy one while failing another, so it is worth knowing which is which before you take a quote.
- A Western Australian electrical licence, issued by Building and Energy — installing grid-connected solar PV is electrical installing work. WA law requires that all electrical work is carried out by a person holding the relevant electrical licence, and that licensed electrical contractors employ licensed electricians to do the work on their behalf. Anyone selling you a system who does not hold an electrical contractor’s licence has to engage one to do the installing work. You can check a licence yourself through the WA Online Licence Search, but note that it only searches by licence number, not by business name, so you will need to ask the company for its EC number first.
- Accreditation from Solar Accreditation Australia — the Clean Energy Regulator states plainly that you must be accredited and licensed to design or install solar or battery storage systems and claim small-scale technology certificates, and that accreditation must come from Solar Accreditation Australia. SAA has been the sole national accreditation body since 2024.
- An unrestricted electrical licence in the state of installation — the Regulator adds that accredited installers must also hold an unrestricted electrical licence in the state or territory where the system is installed. There are narrow exceptions for systems that are not grid-connected, but for an ordinary Perth rooftop this applies.
- New Energy Tech Consumer Code approval is voluntary, and that is precisely why it is useful — it is not a licence and nobody is breaking the law by trading without it. It is a consumer-protection code covering sales conduct, quotes and contracts, installation and warranty handling, and a company chooses to sign up and be audited against it. More than two thousand Australian retailers have. Choosing from the approved list is the cheapest filter a homeowner has.
- Ask for the numbers in writing before you sign — the installer’s SAA accreditation number and the contractor’s WA electrical contractor licence number should both appear on the quote. A business that will not put them there has told you something.
The schemes that change what you actually pay
We have deliberately not published a price table on this page. Solar pricing in Perth moves with panel and inverter supply, with the certificate market, and with whether you are adding a battery, and any figure we printed today would be misleading within a month. What does not move month to month is the set of schemes underneath the price, and understanding those is worth more than a made-up number. Everything in this table was checked against the administering body’s own website on 3 September 2026, and the dates are theirs, not ours.
| Scheme | Runs it | What it changes for you |
|---|---|---|
| Small-scale technology certificates | Federal | Upfront discount on an eligible system. Only claimable if the installer is SAA-accredited. |
| Distributed Energy Buyback Scheme | WA | Credit on your bill for exported electricity. Launched 31 August 2020. |
| Renewable Energy Buyback Scheme | WA | The older scheme DEBS replaced. Closed to new and upgraded systems. |
| New WA technical requirements | WA | From 1 May 2026, new and upgraded systems up to 30 kVA must comply. |
| STC eligibility expansion | Federal | Announced 5 August 2026: eligibility rising from 100 kW to 1 MW, subject to regulations. |
Two of those deserve a sentence more. DEBS eligibility is defined in the Electricity Industry (Licensing Conditions) regulations and covers residential customers consuming no more than 50 MWh a year, along with schools, other educational institutions and certain not-for-profits; the rates are set by your retailer, Synergy or Horizon Power, and are reviewed annually like any other electricity price. And if you are a household still on the old Renewable Energy Buyback Scheme, changing your system is the trigger that moves you onto DEBS, so ask your installer what that does to your bill before, not after.
What we cut from this ranking, and why
Nine of the sixteen businesses we assessed did not make the page. Several of them are perfectly good companies, and in two cases the only thing standing between them and a place here is a credential we could not find. We would rather say that plainly than quietly drop them.
The first group failed the credential check specifically. Two northern operators with real addresses and strong records, Solahart Joondalup at U2/80 Winton Road with 4.8 from 73 reviews, and MinSolar at Unit 2/7 Royce Court in Joondalup with 4.9 from 35, returned no match when we searched the New Energy Tech register by name on 3 September 2026. Other Solahart dealers are listed, including Albany, Balcatta and Cannington, which is why we searched carefully rather than assuming. Neither absence means either business is unlicensed or doing anything wrong; the code is voluntary. It means our first filter is a code membership they have not taken, so they are out this cycle and we will look again next time.
The second group had no verifiable street address. Connect Solar carries 4.9 from 143 reviews and Solar Right WA 4.9 from 42, and neither publishes an address on its Google listing, which means we cannot place either in a suburb. Westcoast Energy Electrical and Solar, The Solar Guy WA, Charge Up Energy and Get Green Solar Power fall the same way. Connect Solar in particular is the largest stranded record in this corridor and would rank highly if it published a base.
The rest were straightforward. Joondalup Solar has a Grand Boulevard address but no reviews at all. Solar 2020 is a New Energy Tech Approved Seller with a genuine northern address, listed on the register at Quinns Rocks and on Google at Mindarie, but its 4.3 from 25 reviews scores below the five above it, so it is the first name out rather than a cut on principle.
Perth-metro brands that surface on northern searches without a northern base were excluded as a matter of course, the same way we handle every other trade on this site.
Questions to ask before you sign
- What is your electrical contractor licence number? Ask for the number, not a reassurance. It should be on the quote.
- Who is the accredited installer, and what is their SAA number? The company selling and the person on your roof are frequently not the same business.
- Is the system sized to my consumption or to my roof? A larger array is not automatically a better outcome under DEBS, because export credit and self-consumption are valued differently.
- What happens when the inverter faults in year six? Ask who you ring, what it costs to attend, and whether the manufacturer’s warranty is handled by them or by you.
- Does this quote comply with the technical requirements applying from 1 May 2026? If you are installing or upgrading a system up to 30 kVA, the answer needs to be yes.
Signs of a poor operator
- Pressure to sign today to catch a rebate that is expiring. The schemes on this page have published dates. Check them.
- A quote with no licence or accreditation numbers on it. Everything else in this list follows from that one.
- A price quoted before anyone has looked at your switchboard or your roof. Older northern-suburbs homes routinely need switchboard work that changes the number.
- No written answer on what happens after installation. Monitoring, warranty and fault attendance are where solar goes wrong, not on day one.
- Reviews that all landed in the same fortnight from accounts with one review each. That is a marketing campaign, not a track record.
Common questions
Do I need an accredited installer, or just a licensed electrician?
Both, and they are different things. The electrical work has to be done under a Western Australian electrical licence issued by Building and Energy, because installing grid-connected solar PV is electrical installing work. Separately, if you want the federal small-scale technology certificates that come off the price of the system, the Clean Energy Regulator requires that the design and installation are done by someone accredited by Solar Accreditation Australia, and that the accredited installer also holds an unrestricted electrical licence in the state where the system goes in. A licensed electrician with no SAA accreditation can wire your house but cannot get you the certificates. An accredited installer without the WA licence cannot legally do the electrical work here. Ask for both numbers, on the quote, before you pay a deposit.
What is the New Energy Tech Consumer Code and does it actually mean anything?
It is a voluntary, ACCC-authorised consumer protection code administered by the Clean Energy Council. It replaced the Approved Solar Retailer program in February 2023 and now has more than two thousand approved sellers nationally. Signing up commits a retailer to standards on sales and marketing conduct, on quotes and contracts, on delivery and installation, and on warranties and complaint handling, and there is a compliance and appeals process behind it. Because it is voluntary, a business not on the register is not doing anything wrong. But it is a public, searchable, national list that a company has chosen to be audited against, and using it as a first filter costs a homeowner nothing. That is why we rank from it rather than from Google alone.
How do I check a WA electrical contractor’s licence myself?
Building and Energy runs the WA Online Licence Search, and it is free and public. There is one catch worth knowing before you try: it searches by licence number only, on exact matches, and you have to include the prefix, so an electrical contractor’s licence is entered in the form EC00000. You cannot look a business up by name. In practice that means asking the company for its EC number, then verifying it yourself, which is a reasonable thing to ask of anyone quoting you thousands of dollars of electrical work. Building and Energy can also be reached on 1300 489 099 if a number does not return a record.
What does DEBS pay, and am I eligible?
The Distributed Energy Buyback Scheme credits you for electricity your system exports to the grid. Energy Policy WA sets the eligibility through the Electricity Industry (Licensing Conditions) regulations, which define an eligible customer as a residential customer using no more than 50 MWh a year, or a school, university or other educational institution, or certain other customers. The rates themselves are published by your retailer, Synergy or Horizon Power, and are reviewed and adjusted annually the way other electricity prices are, so we do not print a number here that would be stale by the time you read it. Check your retailer’s DEBS page for the current rate and terms.
I already have solar. Does adding a battery change my buyback arrangement?
It can, and this is the single most common thing northern-suburbs homeowners get caught by. DEBS replaced the older Renewable Energy Buyback Scheme for new and upgraded systems from September 2020. If you are still on REBS, you keep those rates until you change your solar system or ask to switch, at which point you move to DEBS. Adding a battery is an upgrade. Separately, from 1 May 2026 all new and upgraded household and small business rooftop solar battery systems installed up to 30 kVA have to comply with new Western Australian technical requirements. Get your installer to put in writing both what the upgrade does to your buyback arrangement and how the system meets those requirements.
Why is a company with 584 reviews not ranked first?
Because we rank on rating and volume together, not volume alone. The formula we use across this site weights a business’s average against a site-wide baseline, with the weight increasing as review count grows. That stops a business with three perfect reviews outranking one with hundreds, which is the usual failure of raw star sorting. It also means that once two businesses both have large samples, the average does the deciding. Perth Solar Force has by a distance the biggest review record in the trade, at 584, but its 4.8 average sits a tenth below e-Solar’s 4.9 across 194, and at those sample sizes both numbers are reliable enough that the tenth is real. The gap between them is small and we would treat either as a sound shortlist. If review volume is what you care about most, read the ranking as a tie at the top.
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