How Our Off-Grid Solar Packages Are Used

Helen's Off-grid Journey in Kerikeri

"It’s a decision I’ll never look back on.”

• kit: bach Kit
• kit: Freedom Kit
• kit: tiny house kit
• kit: Weekend Warrior Kit
• type: article

Customer Photo Contest Winners

At the start of last 2023, we asked our customers to send in their best pictures of their GridFree life. We had loads of awesome responses and it was really hard...

• kit: lifestyle kit
• tiny house
• tiny living
• type: article

'Our Tiny Project' in Raglan

"We've been living off grid for 9 months now, thanks in part to our Lifestyle Kit (which even charges our electric car!) Now we are running workshops to help others...

• kit: bach Kit
• type: video

Sharron and Scott's Lifestyle Block in Northland

The realities of off-grid living are often not as glamorous as we make them out to be on video, so today we're going to dig a little deeper into those...

• giveaway
• kit: bach Kit
• type: video

Winning a complete solar package changed this whanau's life!

Last year to celebrate and give back to our growing GridFree community we gave away a Bach Kit to Leah in Pipiwai. After seeing so many deserving entries and the...

• kit: lifestyle kit
• type: article

Wade's Lifestyle Kit in Northland

"I have just completed my build and I am totally off grid. I would like to say a big thanks to the guys at the GridFree store I purchased their...

• kit: Freedom Kit
• type: article

Colin's Freedom Kit in Opotiki

"I had my Freedom Kit installed 10 Oct and it is running beautifully with no issues at all. We've had a couple of times where there were 2-3 days in a row...

• kit: bach Kit
• type: video

Travelling K's Off-Grid Cabin

"I couldn't go back to Suburbia after this, no. I'm proud of the fact that we did this and we had a baby. I'm going to find it interesting that I grew up with...

• giveaway
• kit: bach Kit
• type: video

Revisiting Leah in Pipiwai

Last year to celebrate our growing off-grid community, we decided to give away one of our most popular kits, the Bach Kit. We had a lot of entries and the...

• cabin
• kit: Freedom Kit
• passive house
• tiny house
• tiny living
• type: video

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...

• glamping
• kit: Freedom Kit
• type: video
• yurt

An Off-Grid Family Yurt

Dreaming of more space, warmer weather, and a slower lifestyle, Morgan and Jessica left suburban Wellington for a bare acre in Waipu. During one of their first nights on the land with...

• kit: Freedom Kit
• tiny house
• tiny living
• type: video

Rory and Paulette's Tiny Houses

"I think the best part of being off-grid and having solar is just the freedom. Both the financial and physical freedom to do what we want and that we can...

• kit: bach Kit
• tiny house
• tiny living
• type: video

Tom's & Caro's Off-Grid Tiny House

Living simply and within your means is the most common value when it comes to going GridFree. From living in a compact space, to reducing your consumption and being completely self-sufficient this...

• glamping
• kit: tiny house kit
• off-grid business
• type: video
• yurt

Orchard Valley Glamping - An Off-Grid Passive Income

It seems like it's the new Kiwi dream to find your own slice of paradise and live off the land. Even better when you can make it a business. That's...

• kit: bach Kit
• tiny house
• tiny living
• type: article

Paul's Tiny House

The freedom of living off-grid and being self sufficient has always appealed to me. Moving back to NZ we wanted to live in Waitakere but didn’t want to rent so putting a tiny...

• bus
• kit: Weekend Warrior Kit
• movable dwellings
• type: video

Stacey's Converted Off-Grid Ambulance

One of the things we love about the opportunity that we have being grid free is that we can just get up and go. We don't have to go to...

• family home
• kit: bach Kit
• kit: Freedom Kit
• type: article

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...

• kit: starter kit
• off-grid business
• type: video

Stony Batter Tunnels with Tim

Part of the constraints on the site as they've indicated is no electricity. So sure I could go and spend a vast amount of money and run cables to the...

• cabin
• kit: tiny house kit
• tiny house
• type: article

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...

• giveaway
• kit: bach Kit
• type: video

Leah in Pipiwai, Wins Off-Grid Solar!

The Bach Kit is life changing. To have a fridge, a freezer, lights, being able to charge my phone - I've flattened so many car batteries! Being able to have whānau around, you know...

• cabin
• kit: bach Kit
• kit: starter kit
• type: video

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....

• family home
• kit: bach Kit
• type: article

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...

• kit: Weekend Warrior Kit
• movable dwellings
• type: article

Stacey's Campervan

Stacey's running our Weekend Warrior Kit in his converted ambulance camper. "I installed the kit myself. It was my first effort with all things solar, but the kit was quite...

• family home
• kit: Freedom Kit
• type: article

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!