Solar in Ringwood

Ringwood sits at about 1877 people per square kilometre, standard detached housing with roof planes big enough to lay a full array without awkward splits. At roughly 123 metres, Ringwood sits on the climb east. Slope helps with morning and afternoon capture depending on which way the block falls.

At about 25 kilometres from the CBD, Ringwood is outer-ring, where roof area is rarely the constraint and the network export limit often is. In Maroondah, which includes Ringwood, the paperwork that actually matters is the distributor's, not the council's, unless the building is protected.

Given how close Ringwood sits to Croydon and Donvale, a follow-up visit usually costs you nothing extra in travel. Ringwood covers about 10.2 square kilometres of Maroondah. The 2021 census put the population at 19144, and the postcode is 3134.

Worth knowing about the place: In 2009, the State Government controversially approved the building of a nine-storey housing development near Ringwood Lake, without Council or public consultation. Build era is a fair guide to whether the switchboard will take an inverter without work. Day to day we are across Ringwood and the streets either side of it: Croydon, Donvale, Heathmont and Mitcham. Same crew, same rates, same certificate at the end.

From our Boronia workshop Ringwood is about 7.4 kilometres north-west, which is a short enough run that we can usually fit a look-in around another job rather than making it a separate trip. Because Ringwood railway station sits in Ringwood, the suburb has the older-core, newer-edge pattern common along Melbourne's lines.