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APG SolarNorthern Territory
A work ute and trailer parked beside a shed on a rural Northern Territory block at the end of the day

About

A Darwin company, working right across the NT

A local solar and electrical company, built to run a job properly and to still be here afterwards.

Our story

Why the company was started

APG Solar is the trading name of Alternate Power Generation, a solar and electrical company based in Darwin. It is run by Shane and Duncan, both electricians, with over 20 years in the trade behind them.

After 15 years of electrical work in the Northern Territory, they kept seeing the same two things go wrong: jobs that were not organised properly, and customers who could not get anyone back once the invoice was paid. APG Solar was set up to do both properly.

The company handles the design, the supply, the installation, the commissioning and the monitoring in house. There is nobody to hand a customer off to, and after service is part of the job rather than a favour.

APG Solar is a proudly local Northern Territory business, working across all regions of the NT.

Design to monitoring
Sized, supplied, installed, commissioned and monitored in house.
On grid and off grid
Grid connect, battery storage and full stand alone power systems.
Darwin to Alice Springs
Residential, commercial and industrial work right across the NT.

The directors

Who runs the company

Director

Shane Maidens

Shane is a Darwin local who started his electrical career in rural Western Australia, where five years of work included solar PV in remote Aboriginal communities with companies such as Horizon Power. He then moved back to the Northern Territory, where he has been an electrical contractor for over 15 years before starting APG Solar.

Director

Duncan

Duncan is based in Palmerston and has over 20 years of electrical experience across maintenance, construction and solar, working in domestic, commercial, industrial and oil and gas construction. He moved into solar in 2018 and has since worked on domestic, commercial and large scale solar projects.

On larger jobs the company works with the same electrical engineers, structural engineers, automation engineers, refrigeration mechanics and roofing teams each time, rather than whoever happens to be available.

Why us

Over 20 years in the electrical trade, and a team qualified to back it.

A qualified team
Qualified electricians on the tools, and the engineers and roof crews we work with on the larger jobs.
One company, start to finish
Design, supply, installation, commissioning and monitoring, all in house. Nobody to hand you off to halfway through.
Built for the Top End
Systems sized for the heat, the cloud and a wet season load, not for a brochure written down south.
We come back
We look after the systems we install, and plenty that other people put in.
Locally owned, and staying
Based in Darwin and Palmerston, working right across the NT. No southern call centre in between.
Aerial view of solar panels across the steel rooftops of a Northern Territory suburb

Free quote

Thinking about solar? Let’s talk.

Tell us about the property and what you want the system to do. We will come back to you about what it needs.

info@apgsolar.com.au

Johnston NT 0832