Based in Altona 3018 · REC 37223 · trading since 2005
Melbourne Electricians for Electrical, Solar and Battery Work
One licensed team for switchboards, solar, batteries, hot water, heating and cooling and EV charging across Melbourne’s western suburbs. Rated 5.0 from 63 Google reviews, with a 12-month workmanship guarantee on every install.
Straight from the tools
Meet Dan, the electrician who turns up
Half a minute on how we quote, what a switchboard or heat pump job actually involves, and why the price we write down is the price you pay.
Captions are burned in, so it reads fine with the sound off.
The short answer
Pivot Trade Services is a licensed electrical, solar, battery and HVAC contractor based in Altona, serving Melbourne’s western suburbs since 2005. Lead electrician Dan Morgan holds REC 37223 and SAA accreditation S3962281. Work covers switchboard upgrades from $800, 6.6kW solar from about $3,000 after STCs, 10kWh batteries from $5,500 after rebates, heat pump hot water, split systems and EV chargers. Rated 5.0 from 63 Google reviews, with a 12-month workmanship guarantee on every installation.
5.0 / 63
Google reviews from real western suburbs jobs
REC 37223
Registered Electrical Contractor, plus SAA S3962281
20 years
In the trade since 2005, 7+ years installing solar
12 months
Workmanship guarantee on top of product warranty
Who we are
One contractor for everything that lands on your switchboard
Most people call us about one thing. A power point that stopped working, a solar quote they want checked, a gas ducted heater that finally died in the middle of July. What tends to happen next is that the one job turns into a conversation about two or three others, because a house wired in 1968 was never expected to run a heat pump, an induction cooktop, a reverse cycle system and a car.
We are a Registered Electrical Contractor (REC 37223) and an SAA accredited solar and battery installer (S3962281), working out of 11/23-25 Jordan Close, Altona. Dan Morgan has been in the trade since 2005 and we have been installing solar and batteries for the past seven years. That combination is the point: the same licence covers the power point, the inverter, the heat pump and the charger, so the board gets planned once instead of patched five times.
Electrical
Switchboard upgrades from $800 to $3,500 or more, safety switches, fault finding, rewiring, power points, lighting and smoke alarms. Every job closes with a Certificate of Electrical Safety.
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Solar
Grid-connected rooftop systems with Fronius inverters, sized against your actual usage. A 6.6kW system runs $4,500 to $8,500 before incentives, roughly $3,000 to $6,000 after STCs.
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Home batteries
Tesla, BYD and Alpha ESS storage with backup circuits and VPP-ready setups. A 10kWh battery is $8,000 to $12,000 before rebates and $5,500 to $9,500 after the federal discount.
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Heat pump hot water
Rheem heat pump changeovers from gas or electric storage, using about a third of the electricity of conventional electric hot water. $3,000 to $4,500 before incentives, with stacked rebates commonly over $3,000.
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Heating and cooling
Split systems from $2,500 to $7,500 installed, multi-head systems, ducted refrigerated and evaporative cooling, plus service and repairs. Mitsubishi Electric is our default for reverse cycle.
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EV chargers
Wall-mounted chargers on a dedicated circuit, typically $1,200 to $2,200 single phase, with load management where switchboard capacity is tight rather than an unnecessary supply upgrade.
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The electrification order
Electrifying a house is not one purchase. It is four or five spread over several years, and the order you make them in changes both the total cost and how much of each incentive you actually capture. Do it backwards and you pay twice for the same board work, the same access and the same scaffold. This is the order we recommend to most homeowners in the west. It is not a rule, and a dead hot water service will reorder it for you, but if you are planning rather than reacting it usually costs the least over five years.
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Switchboard first
Everything else terminates here. Ceramic fuses, missing RCDs and boards with no spare ways are the single most common reason a solar, battery or charger install stalls on the day. Looking at the board is cheap. Discovering it halfway through an install is not.
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Solar second
Still the highest return per dollar, and the federal STC incentive tapers every year until the scheme ends in 2030. Solar also creates the cheap daytime energy that makes every later step worth doing at all.
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Hot water next
Hot water is one of the two biggest loads in most homes. A heat pump on a daytime timer turns surplus solar into stored hot water with no battery hardware involved, and the stacked incentives commonly take more than $3,000 off the price.
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Heating and cooling fourth
Reverse cycle running while the sun is up is the other half of the same idea. Replacing a failing gas ducted system with refrigerated ducted or splits moves your largest winter load onto electricity you are already generating.
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Battery and EV charging last
A battery only pays once there is solar to fill it and a full year of real data to size it against. Add the charger when the car arrives, on a board that already has capacity. Charging off a 4 cent export instead of a 40 cent import is the entire point.
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Why homeowners pick us
Why homeowners in the west call us
Victoria removed the mandatory minimum feed-in tariff on 1 July 2025. Export rates now sit well under 5 cents per kWh while peak import is 30 to 45 cents. That one change rewrote the advice on almost every energy upgrade, and a lot of what is still being sold in Melbourne was designed for the old numbers. We quote for the numbers that exist now.
Brands we install
We look at the board before we price the job
No solar, battery or EV charger quote goes out without someone having seen the switchboard and the meter box. It is the difference between a fixed price and a variation on install day.
Local van, not a franchise
We are in Altona 3018, which is a short drive from most of the suburbs we cover. Same-day attendance in the bayside pocket is realistic rather than a marketing line.
Itemised quotes
Equipment, labour and any rebate shown separately, so you can compare us against another quote line by line instead of guessing what the lump sum contains.
The rebate paperwork is ours
Victorian Energy Upgrades discounts come straight off the invoice, STCs are assigned to us and deducted from the price, and Solar Victoria and battery applications are handled at our end. You see the reduced number.
Equipment we will still be servicing in ten years
Fronius, Tesla, BYD, Alpha ESS, Rheem, Mitsubishi Electric, Clipsal, Hager and AWM. Brands with local support, not whatever container arrived cheapest this quarter.
One licence across six trades
Solar, batteries, heat pumps, reverse cycle and EV chargers are all electrical installations under Victorian law. Keeping them under one REC means nobody is pricing around someone else’s work.
Recent work
What a normal month looks like
Panels going down on a Melbourne roof 
Every circuit labelled before we hand it back 
A finished battery and inverter install A Tesla Wall Connector on a dedicated 32A circuit Heat pump hot water, swapped in where the old gas unit sat 
Fitting a linear diffuser on a ducted changeover
Every photograph on this site is from one of our own jobs across Melbourne's western suburbs.
What customers say
Rated 5.0 across 63 Google reviews
These are real reviews from the Pivot Trade Services Google profile, word for word. Nothing here was written for the website.
We couldn’t be happier with the work from Pivot Trade Services. Daniel has completed both general electrical work for us and, more recently, installed our solar panels, battery, and EV charger—and every step of the process exceeded our expectations. …
Super happy with Dan's work and the install of our EV charger! He was quick, reliable and professional. The charger looks great on the wall and placed in the perfect spot. He even updated our switchboard to make it safe and compliant with improved capacity. …
Daniel phoned ahead of his arrival to advise us when we could expect him. He was very efficient and professional in installing our Solar Battery system, and new switch board, etc. We would highly recommend him to family, friends and anyone else who inquired about his workmanship, etc. We are two very happy customers. Geoff & Joan …
Joan Staehr
Solar battery, switchboard and 13 new panels
June 2026 · Google review
Read the rest on GoogleDan came to install a towel rail, service the split system and move the outdoor split system unit. He did a fantastic job on all. The care he took with all the work was incredible including going above and beyond to fashion a cover for the pipe work around the split system external unit. I would not hesitate to recommend Dan to anyone.
Extremely happy with the electrical work provided by Daniel from Pivot Trade Services. Daniel is a professional, knowledgeable tradesman who installed a solar battery, induction cooktop and did a single phase mains upgrade to our meter. The work was completed in a timely manner and as planned. We would be happy to recommend Daniel.
Carmen Spiteri
Battery, induction cooktop and mains upgrade
April 2026 · Google review
See this review on GoogleVery happy with the work provided and communication. We had new downlights, power points and exhaust fans installed including the led lighting over our feature wall which looks fantastic!
Melissa Donaldson
Downlights, power points and exhaust fans
July 2026 · Google review
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Cost and rebate guides, written for Victoria in 2026
- Gas Hot Water Replacement Rules in Victoria from 1 March 2027Compliance · 11 min read
- Victorian Energy Rebates: The Complete 2026 GuideRebates & incentives · 11 min read
- Gas to Electric Heating Rebate in Victoria (2026 Guide)Rebates & incentives · 9 min read
- Solar Battery Rebate in Victoria (2026 Guide)Rebates & incentives · 9 min read
- Solar Feed-in Tariff in Victoria (2026 Guide)Rebates & incentives · 8 min read
- Ducted Heating Replacement Cost in Melbourne (2026 Guide)Cost guides · 8 min read
- How Much Does Ducted Air Conditioning Cost in Melbourne? (2026)Cost guides · 9 min read
- Split System Installation Cost in Melbourne (2026 Guide)Cost guides · 8 min read
- Home Rewiring Cost in Melbourne (2026 Guide)Cost guides · 9 min read
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Answers
Questions we get asked most
Melbourne’s western and inner western suburbs from our base in Altona. That includes Altona North, Altona Meadows, Seaholme, Williamstown, Point Cook, Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Laverton, Footscray, Yarraville, Newport, Spotswood, Sunshine, Sunshine North, Braybrook and Maidstone. Scheduled installs travel further than urgent service calls, so if you are on the edge of that list, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Quotes for installation work such as solar, batteries, hot water, air conditioning and switchboard upgrades are free and site specific. Diagnostic work is different. If you are asking us to track down an intermittent fault, that is billable labour, because finding it is the job. We tell you which category you are in before we attend.
Between $90 and $160 an hour for domestic work, depending on the job, the time of day and whether it is a straight repair or investigative work. Evenings, weekends and public holidays carry a premium almost everywhere. For defined installations we price the job fixed rather than hourly, so you know the number before anyone starts.
Yes, but for a different reason than in 2019. Exporting is now worth under 5 cents per kWh while importing at peak costs 30 to 45 cents, so the value is in using what you generate rather than selling it. A 6.6kW system at roughly $3,000 to $6,000 after STCs still pays back well when it is sized around daytime consumption instead of maximum export.
Sometimes. If the board has spare ways, a suitable main switch and RCD protection on final subcircuits, usually not. If it still has ceramic fuses, no spare capacity or no RCDs, the upgrade has to come first because there is nowhere compliant to land the new circuit. That is why we look at the board before quoting anything that adds load.
A switchboard upgrade is usually a day. A 6.6kW solar system is one to two days. A battery retrofit is generally a day where the solar is already in place. A heat pump hot water changeover is a half to full day. Ducted refrigerated replacing gas ducted runs two to three days depending on ductwork. We give you a realistic window with the quote.
Our installation work: mounting, cabling, terminations, isolators, penetrations and commissioning. It sits on top of the manufacturer warranty on the equipment itself, which is normally much longer for panels, inverters and batteries. If something fails, we work out which warranty applies rather than sending you to the manufacturer to argue about it.
Yes, for live electrical faults. That means burning smells from a board or outlet, exposed conductors, water in electrical equipment, a switchboard hot to touch or a total loss of power that is not a street outage. Before calling, check whether your neighbours have power and whether the main switch holds. If a breaker trips again immediately, leave it off and phone 0401 500 446.
Get a fixed quote on your job
Tell us what you need and we will give you a written price, not a range that moves on the day.
- Free
- On-site quotes
- Fixed
- Written pricing
- 12 mth
- Workmanship guarantee
- 5.0★
- 63 Google reviews