How People Install Solar Power

Thomas' Cabins in Greymouth

I am beyond thrilled with the whole experience! Setting up my Bach Kit was a breeze with an electrician of course, and the level of support I received from their...

Steve's Passive Tiny House

A passive house is a low energy, healthy home, which I think is the future of grid free living. Today I'm in the Coromandel where Steve is building one. Let's...

Bridget's Log Cabin in Twizel

"Absolutely loving my solar kit. I’ve been in my house since Easter 2021 and no hiccups with it. Where I live we get a lot of fog over the winter so...

Karen + Hayden's Off-Grid Cabin

Karen and Hayden (@TravellingK on Youtube) were originally planning to get a Starter Kit for Karen's vintage caravan, but after buying a patch of land in Taumaranui, their plans changed....

Karen's Bach Kit near Taumarunui [VIDEO]

Recently Karen purchased a Bach Kit to power their new cabin they've built on a patch of bare land near Taumarunui, and she videoed the process of her and her...

Andrew's Bach Kit

Overall we are very happy with our system, its perfect for what we need. Uses about 40% of the stored battery capacity overnight and we don’t minimize power usage and...

Graeme in Nuhiti

"We successfully installed the Bach Kit this Summer on our place at Nuhiti and are more than happy with it. It does a fridge-freezer, another freezer, lights, toaster, jug, battery...

Bruce's Tiny House Kit

"We are absolutely over the moon with this. We run our freezer 24/7 and have power for lights, stereo, wifi and tv at our disposal. Thoroughly recommend this product as...

Murray in Mangawhai

Murray's Review of the Bach Kit: The solar panels provided harvest enough charge even on the most cloudy of days, and in the lowest of light, and they have adequately provided...

Going Off-Grid for Christmas with the Weekend Warrior Kit

I asked Northpower if they could connect me to the grid they came back with a quote of somewhere between $45 & $90K. There was no way to justify this...

Mike and Brent's Kits

Customer review on the Tiny house & Weekend warrior kit. Big thanks to Mike and Brent for sharing. If you're interested in getting the same off grid solar kits - please...

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