How People Install Solar Power

Te Arahi's Home in Rodney

"Our solar systems have never missed a beat since I installed them over a year and half ago, thanks to Zed and Ethan for your help. Also my cousin Gary and...

Peter's Bach Kit in Marlborough

Our property is in the Pelorus Sounds boat access only, with no mains power. Prior to installation of the Bach Kit, I used a small Hydro unit to provide my...

Tom and Maudi's Freedom Kit in Ruatoria

Check out our latest customer install! Tom and Maudi are running the GridFree Freedom Kit on their house in Ruatoria!

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...

Reuben's Freedom Kit in Hokianga

It has been about 9 to 10 months since I installed my Freedom Kit solar power system, and it has been a great experience for me as a first time user...

Martin's Freedom Kit in Dunedin

Our kit is installed on and in our three bay shed high on Mt Cargill, overlooking Dunedin city. We installed the racks and panels ourselves, and had a sparky connect...

Marcia's Family Home in Raglan - Upgrading the Bach Kit

We purchased a Bach Kit for our whare back before Christmas 2019. It was great over the summer months and kept up with what we needed it to do. When...

Rebecca and David's Homestead in Owhango - Freedom Kit

Rebecca and David are running the Freedom Kit with the Hybrid Inverter at their family homestead 'Fodder Farm' in Owhango.

Gene's Home in Gisborne - Freedom Kit

Gene is running the Freedom Kit at his family home in Gisborne. After a 6 year journey, construction on the house was finished earlier this year, and he, his wife...

Jane's Freedom Kit in Whangerei

We are really pleased with the setup so far. We got the lead carbon batteries and so far have not discharged below 70% with them generally 90 - 100% charged....

Check out this fully off-grid relocated house, located south west of Auckland CBD.Massive water storage and 10kw of solar/battery capacity using our Freedom Kit. The super-resilient owners Elias and María have also...

Nathan in Karamea

I have had a great experience purchasing our solar system from GridFree. Their website is full of useful information for working out what we want, they have been very helpful...

3 Bach Kit Installs + our own testing

The summer holidays are the perfect time to get DIY projects finished, so it's no surprise that we saw several of our kits get set up recently! Check out a few...

Kohi and Doreen's Bach Kit in Kawhia

Our place is at Te Waitere which is in the Kawhia harbour. With no experience at all on how to install a solar system, we were worried alright, but with...

Holly's Bach Kit

Check out some pics from a recent customer install! Holly is running the Bach Kit at her bach in Gisborne! "This system is awesome! It runs my fridge 24hrs a...

Rachel And Marius' Orca Bus!

We talked to Rachel and Marius when they were celebrating two weeks of adventures in their housebus, Orca, running the GridFree Bach Kit. So far, they're absolutely loving it! Learn...

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