Our 500th solar system!
9 May 2026
We started with a vision nine years ago - to make it easier for residents across the Inner West to install solar, removing the hassle factor and trusting us to help them buy a quality solar PV system for a fair price.
Today we’re thrilled to report we’ve installed our 500th PV system!
It’s a 9.025 kilowatt system for Newtown residents John and Elizabeth Kenyon, a 19-panel system with a 20 kilowatt-hour battery.
Newtown residents John and Elizabeth Kenyon.
Since 2017, Inner West Community Energy has facilitated $5.25 million of residential solar with a total capacity of 3.69 megawatts of generation.
Prominent locals we’ve helped include Anthony Albanese (system number 115, 7.665kW); Kobi Shetty (number 158, 8.3kW); novelist Charlotte Wood (number 165, 5.395kW) and former Federal Minister David Bradbury (system 465, 8.85kW).
When we started, the average system size was just 3.9 kilowatts; now it’s 8.2kW. Plus most people are adding a battery, and our hot water heat pump service is taking off, too. Solar and battery systems that cost over $30,000 two years ago now cost well under $20,000.
These days, our goal is to help people live in an all-electric home powered by the sun.
That’s exactly what the Kenyons of Newtown have just done. Elizabeth Kenyon says they appreciated the common-sense support we provided. “That extra level of expertise,” she says. “Someone who could look at the quote for us, and the fact that you’d worked with people already so you could give us a recommendation as well.”
If you know anyone interested in solar, batteries and the all-electric home, our next Solar and Battery Information Night will see us back at Gasoline Pony in Marrickville on Thursday, May 28, starting at 7pm. It’s a free night that will run for a bit over an hour.
We’ll explain who we are and how we work, then it’ll be over to you to fire questions to us and to one of Sydney’s most experienced solar installers.
We’ll supply the pizza, you supply the difficult questions about solar, batteries, hot water heat pumps and the electrification of everything!
Registration is free via Humanitix here.