Kerfoot Pty Limited

Moorebank 86 Heathcote Road, (02) 98240511 Jamisontown 10 Robertson Place (02) 4725 5444 WWW.AWESIMELECTRICALWHOLESALERS.COM.AU KERFOOT PTY L IMI TED after the larger electrical jobs. The Service team provide all the maintenance service and small projects – replace switchboards, carry out routine annual inspections, maintenance of solar PV systems, etc. The Integration team offer services within the BMS control systems such as launching controls and related solutions. The Mechanical Electrical team do all the mechanical wiring for companies, manufacturing switchboards and all the aspects that go with that type of mechanical installation. The most recent addition, the Energy team, offer solar PV. Complete turnkey packages from design, procurement, construction, through to the operation following completion of the projects. Keane explains, “We’re also offering battery storage solutions, and we’re adding a few more product ranges that will include demand management where the buildings are load shedding, reducing demand upon the requirements of the DNSP and the networks in the area. That will be an exciting space, particularly in Australia over the next few years, given the move from fossil fuels and coal-fired power stations to renewables and much more solar. And I would say the networks are behind in where they would need to be to cope with the fluctuating generation that comes from solar, so I think demand management is going to be quite a large part of the puzzle for establishing a stable network.” Kerfoot mainly operates within the commercial industrial space where the bigger projects are, rather than smaller residential projects. From an electrical perspective, the company only covers New South Wales because its employees are based there and it would be difficult to provide that kind of service in other states. But that horizon has broadened for the energy side of the business, which was established about 24 months ago. With the use of specific selected sub-contract installation teams, the company has that service available nationally. Kerfoot is able to provide solar PV, battery storage and demand management (once it’s been finalised) when Keith set up Kerfoot in partnership with wife Barbara. Today, the Kerfoot team, led by Directors Stephen and Richard Kerfoot, and third generation Operations Manager, Josh Kerfoot, has grown from a small family business to become a multi-award winning leader in the electrical contracting industry in New South Wales. Neil Keane, Energy Manager of Kerfoot, recounts, “The company started three generations back and has grown from a two-man residential electrical business to now 150 employees. Over 47 years, the company has established a very good reputation within the industry for consistently providing quality service. And a lot of the clients we currently work for are ongoing business. It’s not just single projects we’re doing, they keep coming back to us time after time because they’re getting the service they want.” Kerfoot has five core teams operating cohesively within the business. The Projects team look