Your connection will either be an individual connection or a shared connection.
Each connection has a ‘generation allocation’, or amount of solar, it can accommodate.
When you make an application to us to connect solar PVs our system will show whether the connection for the given address is individual, shared or unknown. The connection type is important to us for assessing the application.
These diagrams illustrate common connection types.
Individual underground connection
Individual connection with an overhead service cable
Individual connection with an overhead service cable and customer poles
Units in developments such as strata schemes, shopping centres and residential parks connect through a switchboard to the grid.
Sometimes in small older developments, units connect directly to the connection point. However, all units still share the generation allocation.
Shared underground connection
Shared connection with an overhead service cable