Real Solar Projects & Customer Stories

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

Le Workshop Tiny Homes

One of Le Workshop's tiny homes featuring a Bach Kit

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

Lisa's Tiny House

"We have just moved to Coromandel, which we absolutely LOVE. Our electrician is arriving today hopefully to finalise everything and give us the nod!! Cannot wait. We still have the...

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

Eleanor's Tiny Home

I bought a batch kit from Gridfree and when I had a problem with it failing to charge properly I was very pleased to find that they offered a very...

• kit: bach Kit
• kit: Weekend Warrior Kit
• type: article

Kokako Outpost

We have a weekend warrior kit and a bach kit. Installed the bach kit over the holiday break, great instructions and easy to follow. The weekender has been amazing, easily...

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

Dan and Kelly's Off-Grid House bus Conversion

"I've always thought that idea of the kind of mid-life crisis is just such nonsense. It's not a crisis, it's just an awakening of just like 'you've lived half your life!...

• kit: bach Kit
• type: article

Murray's Bach in the BOP

"We are based in the Bay of Plenty and are very happy with our kit. We have the setup with two pods and the system runs all of our necessary...

• kit: Freedom Kit
• kit: Weekend Warrior Kit
• type: article

Louisa's Off-Grid Office and Bach

I love love love my office and knowing that I’m using sustainable off grid solar energy just lights up my heart. 

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...