Full service renewable energy consultants

Renewable energy consulting Newcastle

With locally based staff in Newcastle Enhar offers our full range of services to Sydney and the surrounding regions.

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Electric Vehicle Charging in Newcastle

Strata EV Charging

We de-risk and ensure cost-effective installations for EV charging for strata properties, collaborating with property managers to ensure seamless integration.

Apartment EV Charging

Offering tailored charging solutions for apartments, we prioritise accessibility, performance and cost to ensure every resident can charge at home with ease.

Business EV Charging

Equip your Newcastle business with efficient EV charging technologies. Cater to employees, clients, and fleets, demonstrating your commitment to a greener future.

ensuring quality and cost effective projects

EV Charging, Solar PV and Renewable Energy Projects

Enhar specialises in beginning to end services complex solar and smart energy projects through feasibility and optimisation, technical design, grid connection approval, procurement management, owners engineering services, quality control and asset management.

Optimise, reduce project risk, procure and ensure quality and compliance.

EV Charging

Electric vehicle uptake is increasing and many apartments, councils and businesses are upgrading their infrastructure to support the EV revolution.

There are many factors involved, including EV charging feasibility studies that are conducted to determine how many EV chargers can be added to the grid, and how to best integrate them with the existing electrical system.

Enhar specialises in providing forward thinking and cost-effective staged rollouts for Strata EV charging, Apartment EV charging and Business EV charging.

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Solar Battery Installations

Leveraging a deep understanding of the latest advancements in battery technology and solar energy storage solutions, Enhars solar battery consultants ensure optimal energy utilisation, enhance grid independence, and maximise financial returns.

Enhars helps partner organisations efficiently store excess solar energy, reduce electricity costs, and move a step closer to a sustainable energy future.

Grid Connection

Enhars grid connection specialists focus on facilitating the compliant and safe connection of solar installations or solar and battery installations into the existing electrical grid.

With an intricate knowledge of the technical, regulatory, and logistical aspects of grid interfacing, Enhars experts enhance your installations energy accessibility, stabilise it's power supply, and add resilience to the energy landscape.

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Solar Battery Feasibility and Tendering

During the initial stages of a project, it's critical to technology evaluate the viability of integrating solar battery storage solutions into various settings, considering technical specifications, environmental factors, and financial projections.

Enhar helps determine project feasibility and guide stakeholders through the tendering process, ensuring that project requirements are clearly defined. This ensures that solar battery projects are not only technically sound but also competitively sourced and financially optimised.

Renewable Energy Project Management and Owners Engineer

Expert project management of sustainable energy projects is vital for success; it ensures efficient resource allocation, timely completion, and adherence to standards, regulation and budget.

Enhar provides comprehensive project management from the beginning of a project to completion and beyond as an owners engineer. Post-completion of the project, Enhar conducts inspections and audits to ensure the installation is free of defects, maintains efficiency and achieves the best return on investment.

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Commercial Services

Working with you at any stage of your project.

Our independent consulting services are designed to optimise, de-risk and ensure quality, compliance and safety from project inception through to commissioning.

Feasibility Assessment

Assess optimised project solutions through professional technical and financial assessment.

Feasibility Assessment

Assess optimum system solutions and reduce project risk with an independent feasibility assessment:

  • Stage 1 Desktop feasibility for high level options report.
  • Stage 2 Detailed feasibility inlcuding technical inspection by a CEC accredited electrician.
  • Compliant and safe roof layouts.
  • Yield estimations with Helioscope or PVsyst.
  • Integrated analysis of electrical load profile and yield.
  • Technical and financial system optimisation.
  • Identification of key technical risks and site upgrades.
  • Electricity tariff review and government subsidies.
  • Business and financial case for various options.
  • Procurement strategy.

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Trevor
Ackland

Director & Head of Commercial Services, Co-Founder

Trevor prides himself on ensuring quality, compliant and risk free solar and smart energy projects for Enhar clients. He heads up the commercial services division, managing an industry leading team of accredited professionals, providing consulting services for solar PV, energy storage or EV infrastructure projects.

Design and Engineering

Value engineering, detailed design and certification by certified engineers for project owners and EPCs.

Design and Engineering

Limited team, skills shortage, delays, quality challenges?

Our NER/REPQ certified engineering team complete detailed design services for solar, solar hybrid, off grid and EV infrastructure projects for both project owners and EPC contractors.

  • Enhanced system compliance, reliability and safety.
  • Compliant designs to Australian Standards, DNSP requirements and best practice.
  • Provide safe roof layouts ensuring maintenance access and access to other roof plant.
  • Improved project aesthetics and integration with the surrounding environment.
  • Value engineering to optimise installation and materials costs.

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Trevor
Ackland

Director & Head of Commercial Services, Co-Founder

Trevor prides himself on ensuring quality, compliant and risk free solar and smart energy projects for Enhar clients. He heads up the commercial services division, managing an industry leading team of accredited professionals, providing consulting services for solar PV, energy storage or EV infrastructure projects.

Grid Application and Approvals

Hassle-free grid approval and DNSP compliance using Enhars registered SAA engineering team.

Grid Application and Approvals

Our engineering team have experience with grid connection approvals for every DNSP's across Australia. We specialise in larger complex solar and solar battery systems.

  • Ensure compliance with regulations, standards and specifc requirements of each electrical distributor.
  • Avoid delays and re-designs due to non-compliance, we know what the DNSP requires.
  • A streamlined process helps your projects get compliant and to avoid delays in grid approvals.
  • Post installation testing and reporting to DNSP requirements

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Roger
Mansfield

Technical Director - Commerical

Roger is a registered electrical engineer with NER, REPQ registration and over 20 years' experience in the renewables industry. He has completed design detail and managed grid connection applications for every distributor in Australia, from conventional solar PV systems, to complex solar battery hybrid and MW scale behind the meter systems with complex secondary protection controls. He brings technical excellence ensuring compliant, best practice and value engineered designs.

Procurement Management

Streamline procurement with the solutions you want, ensuring quality products and installations from reputable suppliers

Procurement Management

Full procurement management including site specifc designs, robust evaluation and pre-qualified suppliers, to ensure quality, compliance, no variation claims and take out the guess work.  

  • Detailed site specific designs and installation briefs.  
  • Project specifications, response schedules & documentation.
  • Invited tenders to pre-qualified EPC/suppliers.
  • Independent robust tender evaluation by industry experts.
  • Contract review and assistance.
  • Recommend the most suitable and cost-effective suppliers and contractors.

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David
Kincaid

Lead: Commerical Solar Management

David is a SAA accredited A grade electrician and experienced Operations and Project manager within the Solar industry, he has built up an extensive network and knowledge base of the past 12 years in the renewable energy industry. David is comprehensively skilled in technical installation, quality and project management, monitoring, grid connection of PV systems, post installation quality auditing and solar asset management. He is results and quality driven, highly motivated, budget focused professional with a strong client service focus.

Owners Engineer and Compliance

Quality assurance across all project stages to de-risk and ensure best practice, safety and compliance.

Owners Engineer and Compliance

Experienced certified engineers and accredited electricians on your team for your next solar, solar battery or electric vehicle charging infrastructure project; ensuring quality from design to installation and commissioning;

  • Detailed design and documentation review and approval.
  • Regular onsite technical inspections.
  • Review and approve design alteration's.
  • Assist with progress invoices and variation claim's.
  • Post installation auditing and defect management.
  • Review and approve as built drawings O&M manual's.
  • Ensure system is switched on and grid approval is received.
  • Ensure a safe and compliant installation.

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David
Kincaid

Lead: Commerical Solar Management

David is a SAA accredited A grade electrician and experienced Operations and Project manager within the Solar industry, he has built up an extensive network and knowledge base of the past 12 years in the renewable energy industry. David is comprehensively skilled in technical installation, quality and project management, monitoring, grid connection of PV systems, post installation quality auditing and solar asset management. He is results and quality driven, highly motivated, budget focused professional with a strong client service focus.

Post Installation Auditing

Post installation auditing to ensure compliant installations reducing future performance and safety issues.

Post Installation Auditing

Non-compliant installation are common and lead to future performance, safety and warranty issues;

  • Ensure system installation is compliant to Australian Standards, project specifications and best practice.
  • Experienced, industry leading CEC accredited electricians who have audited 100's of commerical systems.
  • Review O&M manuals and as-built drawings for compliance and accuracy.
  • Defect rectification management.

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David
Kincaid

Lead: Commerical Solar Management

David is a SAA accredited A grade electrician and experienced Operations and Project manager within the Solar industry, he has built up an extensive network and knowledge base of the past 12 years in the renewable energy industry. David is comprehensively skilled in technical installation, quality and project management, monitoring, grid connection of PV systems, post installation quality auditing and solar asset management. He is results and quality driven, highly motivated, budget focused professional with a strong client service focus.

Safety, Performance & Condition Auditing

Existing systems are often unsafe, underperforming or switched off, our CEC electricians audit and rectify.

Safety, Performance & Condition Auditing

Many commercial solar and smart energy systems have never been maintained or inspected by an accredited person. Are your solar PV systems safe, performing optimally and even switched on? We conduct performance, condition and safety audits of existing PV and battery systems.

  • Team of experienced in-house CEC electricians.
  • Audit the entire system for compliance, operational issues, condition and safety.
  • Provide details of recommended rectifications and equipment replacement required.
  • Rectify minor issues on site.
  • Benchmark system performance against expected generation.
  • Creating of asset registers.
  • provide electrical and roof layout drawings of systems.

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David
Kincaid

Lead: Commerical Solar Management

David is a SAA accredited A grade electrician and experienced Operations and Project manager within the Solar industry, he has built up an extensive network and knowledge base of the past 12 years in the renewable energy industry. David is comprehensively skilled in technical installation, quality and project management, monitoring, grid connection of PV systems, post installation quality auditing and solar asset management. He is results and quality driven, highly motivated, budget focused professional with a strong client service focus.

Solar Asset Management

Maximise the operational performance and ensure safety with proactive asset management and monitoring.

Solar Asset Management

Hassle free ongoing management of your solar and battery assets by our experience accredited team, to ensure performance and safety.

  • Active monitoring through Enhar's monitoring platforms or third-party inverter online portals.
  • Monthly or quarterly reports on system performance, faults and rectifications.
  • Identification and management of faults and underperformance.
  • Management of product warranty claims.
  • Reactive Maintenance and Rectification.
  • Periodic Maintenance.
  • Solar panel cleaning.

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David
Kincaid

Lead: Commerical Solar Management

David is a SAA accredited A grade electrician and experienced Operations and Project manager within the Solar industry, he has built up an extensive network and knowledge base of the past 12 years in the renewable energy industry. David is comprehensively skilled in technical installation, quality and project management, monitoring, grid connection of PV systems, post installation quality auditing and solar asset management. He is results and quality driven, highly motivated, budget focused professional with a strong client service focus.

Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

Independant fleet and electrical demand modelling, optimised EVSE infrastructure design.

Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

Enhar models future EV electrical demand to optimise required electrical infrastructure upgrades whilst ensuring future EV demand is met.

  • Existing electrical infrastructure assessment by qualified electricians.
  • Detailed EV fleet modelling, assessing daily/annual km's, vehicle efficiencies and charging times.
  • Future electrical demand modelling to minimise required electrical upgrades and ensure EV demand requirements.
  • Detailed design of required electrical upgrades.
  • Management of required electrical supply upgrades.
  • Tender and procurement management.
  • Owners engineers to ensure compliance and best practice.

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Ryan
Akers

Engineer and CEC accredited solar electrician

Ryan is a A-grade electrician and Mechatronics engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the renewables industry; and 3 years in the EV charging industry. He takes great pride in delivering projects that are to the highest possible workmanship standards, exceeding Australian standards and ensuring best practice to ensure the long performance and safety of the asset.

Solar PV Systems

Solar is complex with many technical, procurement and financial risks; get an independent expert on your team

Solar PV Systems

Enhar are independent solar PV experts; with an industry leading team of solar professionals.

  • Assess optimum solutions through independent feasibility assessments.
  • Successfully procure quality solar PV systems with the solutions you want
  • Best practice, compliant detailed design and certification
  • Streamlined grid connection approvals; with experience with every distributor in Australia
  • Quality management/owners engineer through installation ensuring compliance and best practice
  • Ongoing asset management ensuring your systems a safe and performing optimally.

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Trevor
Ackland

Director & Head of Commercial Services, Co-Founder

Trevor prides himself on ensuring quality, compliant and risk free solar and smart energy projects for Enhar clients. He heads up the commercial services division, managing an industry leading team of accredited professionals, providing consulting services for solar PV, energy storage or EV infrastructure projects.

On Grid Hybrid and Battery

Optimise battery performance, sizing and financials; detailed design, grid approvals and quality control.

On Grid Hybrid and Battery

On grid hybrid and battery systems are technically complex in a rapidly changing industry. An optimally designed battery system can provide reasonable financial returns from various income streams, whilst increasing on-site usage of solar PV, reducing peak demands and providing back-up power.

  • Optimise system sizing to increase financial returns.
  • Independant advice on battery and control systems
  • Detailed design of complex systems to DNSP requirements
  • Grid application and management
  • Procurement management and documentation
  • Owners engineer services ensuring quality

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Ryan
Akers

Engineer and CEC accredited solar electrician

Ryan is a A-grade electrician and Mechatronics engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the renewables industry; and 3 years in the EV charging industry. He takes great pride in delivering projects that are to the highest possible workmanship standards, exceeding Australian standards and ensuring best practice to ensure the long performance and safety of the asset.

Off Grid Power Systems

Optimise off grid power system design, through detailed load and system modelling, design and value engineering.

Off Grid Power Systems

Complete off-grid consultation from load modelling, design optimisation, detailed design and owners engineers

  • Load analysis and modelling using PVsyst
  • Solar PV and battery sizing optimisation to limit back-up supplies
  • Independant advice on solar, battery and control products
  • Full detailed design services
  • Procurement Management
  • Owners engineer for construction quality over-site

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Rana
Mitra

Lead Engineer: Off Grid and Hybrid

Rana is a professional electrical engineer with SAA Grid connect and off grid design accreditation and 14 years' experience in all aspects of solar power generation and battery hybrid. His technical understanding and thorough approach has allowed him to successfully build and manage the solar PV and Hybrid division, optimising and design complex solar hybrid systems for off grid applications.

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