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Scenario · Solar and Battery

Survey and design a commercial solar and battery system

You are an accredited solar designer and installer in the Solar and Battery team.

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The situation

What has happened

Kingsley Grammar School wants a 99 kW rooftop photovoltaic system and a 100 kWh battery on its sports centre, job J-26-1171, and needs generation and savings figures for its board meeting on 20 October. The sports centre has a north-facing metal deck roof with a row of skylights, a tree line on the eastern boundary, and a main switchboard rated at 400 A per phase that already supplies the pool plant and the air conditioning. The school has interval metering data for the past year. Network rules limit export for systems of this size and require an export control device. The battery must go in a plant room that also houses the pool chemical dosing equipment.

Your brief. Plan and complete a safe site survey, gather the information the design needs, produce a preliminary design and generation estimate that meets the standards and the network's connection rules, identify a compliant battery location, and prepare a draft quotation for the Solar and Battery Manager's review.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Completed job safety analysis for the roof survey
  • Site survey record with measurements, shading and switchboard findings
  • Preliminary design with array layout, string design, inverter and battery selection and generation estimate
  • Draft quotation on the template
  • One page board summary

Documents to use

Systems to use

Job and Work Order Board

The record of every quoted, scheduled, in-progress and completed job across all departments, with the site, allocated tradespeople, supervising electrician and status.

Test and Compliance Register

Records the mandatory test results, certificates of electrical safety, solar compliance documents and observations for every job before it is handed over.

Instrument, Plant and Vehicle Register

Tracks every test instrument, refrigerant recovery unit, scale, leak detector, ladder, elevated work platform and service van with its calibration or inspection status.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Electrotechnology Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

UEERE0054Conduct site survey for grid-connected photovoltaic and battery storage systems
UEERE0049Apply safe work practices in the rooftop solar industry
UEERE0061Design grid-connected photovoltaic power supply systems
UEERE0060Design grid-connected battery storage systems
UEECO0015Provide quotations for installation or service jobs

Qualifications

UEE43322Certificate IV in Electrical - Renewable Energy
UEE50722Diploma of Renewable Energy Engineering
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

The survey must be complete enough to design from, with the shading and skylight hazards addressed. The design must respect the switchboard capacity, the network export limits and the battery location rules, and the generation estimate must show its method and assumptions. The quotation should have a clear scope and exclusions and the board summary should be honest about uncertainty.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.