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About 1 MW of rooftop solar on the main centre, plus a separate 161 kW system on the Medical Centre, with a 1.78 MWh Deye battery, being installed behind the meter, designed to reduce day-to-day energy costs and manage the centre’s peak demand.
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Installation in progress. Photos are added as the project moves.
The challenge
Shopping centres use a lot of power during the day, and Kardinya Park is growing. The centre has expanded and its electricity use is going up. On a high-voltage site, much of the bill comes from how much power you use at your busiest times (peak demand), not just how much you use in total.
The owners set three clear goals: cut the centre’s day-to-day energy costs, manage peak demand so the centre isn’t paying for spikes, and get the most out of the available large-scale generation certificates (LGCs).
What we did
As the EPC contractor, our team is managing the project from design and approvals through to installation and commissioning.
Once running, solar powers the centre during the day and cuts the power it buys from the grid, while the battery stores energy and releases it to trim the centre’s peak demand.
Project package
| Category | Equipment | Qty | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main centre: solar panels (inverters to come) | Risen 595 W bifacial | 1,709 | 1,016.9 kW (about 1 MW) |
| Main centre: inverters / battery PCS (to come) | Deye 125 kW power conversion systems | 6 | 750 kW |
| Main centre: battery (to come) | Deye BOS-B Pro 256 kWh racks | 7 | 1.78 MWh |
| Medical Centre (separate system): solar panels (complete) | Risen 595 W bifacial | 270 | 160.7 kW |
| Medical Centre (separate system): inverters (complete) | Deye 80 kW inverters | 2 | 160 kW |
| Metering (to come) | Summation metering | – | Whole-site load visibility |
| Mounting | S-5! mounting system, rooftop; many panels walked out and mounted by hand | – | – |
| Monitoring | Bespoke client dashboard with purpose-built weekly reporting, plus monthly, quarterly and annual summary reports covering YTD performance and lifetime figures | – | – |
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Progress
Before work started
Structural engineering, fire engineering and network approval completed before work started.
August 2026
Solar and inverters on the Medical Centre roof, as its own separate system. This section is complete.
Aug–Oct 2026
Panels installed and strings wired across the main centre roofs. Complete.
Next
Inverters for the main centre array.
Next
1.78 MWh battery, power conversion systems, distribution board, switchboard connections and summation metering.
Expected
Commissioning and handover.
We send the owner a weekly progress report with photos. This page is updated as the project moves.
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