How Our Off-Grid Solar Packages Are Used

An Update from Orca Bus - One Year On

When we first talked to Rachel and Marius, they were just one month into living in their newly renovated housebus, Orca. It's now been over a year of adventures, and we're lucky...

Elias and Maria in Auckland

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...

Marie's Tiny Home - Interview

Originally from France, Marie has been in New Zealand for several years, and we first met her in June of 2019, when she purchased a Tiny House Kit with a...

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...

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...

Aidan's Tiny House on Wheels

We're always so stoked to get feedback like this. We know from experience how much of a pain it can be to get a small scale solar set up done,...

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...

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...

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...

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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