putting off your purchase may not necessarily make financial sense.

Energy prices are already high and forecasted to increase expidentially but solar power costs are at an all-time low.

Upgrading your home with solar panels can be a fast and easy way to help make your home more attractive to potential buyers.

Solar panels have long life spans and even if selling your house isn’t on the immediate horizon, you’ll still be able to enjoy all the benefits of generating clean solar energy while making your place more attractive if you decide to put your house on the market in the future. And while you’re waiting, it’s worth remembering that the climate council estimates most Australian solar systems now pay for themselves in less than a decade.

Solar panels require very little maintenance. And while in the past some manufacturers advised buyers to have them cleaned every few years to ensure they continued to produce energy, today’s solar panels don’t even require this level of upkeep. Most experts now agree that it’s not worth the bother or expense of cleaning high-performance solar panels since they should still be running efficiently even when dirty.

The Australian continent has the highest solar radiation per square metre of any continent and consequently some of the best solar energy resource in the world. The regions with the highest solar radiation are the desert regions in the northwest and centre of the continent.