See how customers install solar power kits from GridFree, and read all their stories about off grid living in NZ. Whether it's a tiny home, cabin in the bush, architectural masterpiece, or even a glamping business, living off the grid looks different to everyone, and our kits can support all those different journeys.
How People Install Solar Power
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Solar power for us means more time, more flexibility, it takes the struggle out of off-grid life.
We can focus on the good things!
Story Spotlight: Bach Kit Giveaway
Sarah and Tim
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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!
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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 partner Hayden installing it! Make sur...
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Off Grid Solar with Two Weekend Warriors
Looking to power your caravan or weekend get-away? The Weekend Warrior Kit gives you off grid solar power anywhere, anytime, so you’re free to go wherever the road takes you with our DIY solar pane...
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DIY Dreams: The Reboot Life House Bus, NZ, powered by The Bach Kit
Karma and Scott are running the Bach Kit in their 1984 Isuzu bus, which they have converted themselves over the last year!
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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 by 10am its at 100% again.
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Marie's Tiny House
Meet Marie. She built her own tiny house, and has been living there for over year! Early in the process she got in touch with us to get her solar power sorted, and it's been really awesome to watch...
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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 of solar power. We are fully dependent on our so...
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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 the fancy bits inside the shed...
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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 we purchased it, we always knew that by March 20...
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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.
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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 Chelsea, their two daughters, and ...
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Tom's Tiny House
We checked in on Tom earlier this year and had a quick chat about how he's finding off-grid life so far! He's running the Bach Kit on his tiny house with his wife.
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