Hi, my name is John and I live at Labrador with my wife and adult son. I first met Paul mid year 2011 in having the $50.00 Government Climate Smart Service check. We were provided with a monitor showing what we were paying for our power. After a while we checked the cost and ability to have solar power connected. Got quotes from companies and then checked with Paul. Surprise surprise Paul has a company Green Spark Electrical and Solar Qld Pty Ltd so we got good information from him and quote at a better price and with the best system available. Bad news and good news. Bad in that we had a super 6 asbestos roof, no joy there, but we had a long colourbond garage roof and though it was flat he could position 14 panels with frames to the correct angle to get the full benefit of the sun. At Paul's advice arrangements were made with neighbours for tree trimming. Done with great co-operation.
The solar was ordered and within no time at all it was very efficiently placed and in operation providing 2.66kw of solar power.
An additional cost to us was moving the power box from the rear of the house to the front as we have a big dog and often as not our power use was guestimated by the power company.
Prior to solar power our average three monthly power bill was $181.95 but with the new solar from 2011 to mid 2013 we were receiving a three monthly average credit of $90.79. No bill to pay.
As a self funded retirees of over 11 years and we being part pensioners, I, John, spend a lot of time in my woodworking machine shop and do the odd bit of welding also. So I was happy with the result in consideration of the free solar power I use, as well as having an excess at 44 cents per KW hour of power going into the grid.
Paul provided us with another monitor which records the daily and monthly solar output and this assists us with a full determination of power and to assess our power use. It was a new learning curve for us and Paul was exemplorary in his knowledge transfer and assistance.
In July 2013 we had our roof replaced as a result of storm damage in February of that year, now a colourbond roof.
This opened up an opportunity to extend the solar power so once more we engaged Paul and was very pleased to have another 10 panels installed on the new roof and at a much cheaper price than that in 2011. There was no need to change the inverter as it could handle the now 4.66kw system. The return from the power company was still at 44cents per kw hour. Again a couple of trees required pruning.
Since then, till now with 24 panels in place, the return to us from the power company has moved from $90.79 to $203.09 per three months. We also have retained our cylinder Hot Water System.

Paul has been extremely good at responding to any enquiries we have had, has guided us through the data collection and interpretation and understanding for our records and monitoring of the system.

From our experience, we have no hesitation in recommending Paul and his Green Spark Electrical and Solar Qld Pty Ltd company for efficiency, honesty in business, and after installation follow up checks on the solar performance.

Approximate cost: $11000 all up (ex power board relocation)