Jacques Farm, which is in the Atherton Tablelands of Mareeba, has been there for over 30 years, they grow, and distribute, and roast their own bean.

Out here we have 85,000 Arabica coffee trees, producing a really high quality coffee. The whole plantation consists of about 200 acres with two kilometres of creek frontage. We also have a plantation cafe along with obviously, the kitchen and the factories and everything else that goes along with it.

We have various pumps around the property that are consuming electricity. We also have four residences here as well. So, along with the residences, the factories, the cafe, the kitchen, the pumps, there's a lot of energy usage to keep a farm going. The biggest energy user on a farm is the pumps. If you can negate the power that you use in your pumps, then you're on a winner. Now that isn't very expensive for the water itself, the main consideration is the power pumping the water out of the creek, over the coffee trees.

So the brief was, at stage one, was to do the 85 kilowatts. So, you wanted a panel that could maximize it's return. Being that Mareeba is an hour west of Cairns, it does get quite hot there and we're really worried about the temperature coefficiency. He knew all about that and he wanted the NeON R. So, that was a pretty easy brief for us to fulfill.

The NeON R, obviously arguably, the best panel on the planet at the moment. And, I mainly chose it because of the technology behind it, also the temperature coefficient. We're up here in North Queensland and it gets hot. In the hot weather, the panels are going to be performing a hell of a lot better.

He did a lot of research before approaching us and hence we quoted with a high end LG NeON R range panel, 85 kilowatts across four electricity counts to supply them with 44 cents. So, they're right in the midst of installing that on existing carport roofs and then we got another 80 kilowatts to cover the cafe and also a pump house. Across the installations, they'll be 165 kilowatts of solar panel and inverters gonna be installed across the four sites and savings stage 1, 85 kilowatts, will have a pay back period of less than 2 years. Even with the high end quality spec'ed. The cafe and the pump house, which will go on the cafe and the workshop, is expected to have a pay back of about only 3 and a half years. So, economically, he said it was a no brainer.

It's crazy if you don't. If you're not using solar power, you're A, you're costing a lot of extra carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere. B, your hip pocket.

It's the main consideration.