About Empowered Offgrid
All the power you need. Always.
Delivering reliable power for those... who rely on it
35 years designing off-grid systems for properties like yours
We design off-grid and hybrid power systems for rural properties from the Hunter to the Mid North Coast — places where the power going off isn’t an inconvenience; it’s a problem. Getting it right means you have what you need, whenever you need it.
With us, one business designs the system, installs it, and comes back every year to service it. That’s deliberate — it’s how a fault gets found before it becomes an outage. And it’s why the design has to be right from the start.
HOW WE WORK
We design for the site, not a catalogue.
We start with your load
How and when you use power decides the system, not the size of your roof or your budget. We work that out first, then design to it — with headroom, because bad weeks happen.
Houses, farms & businesses
We work where you live
Accredited for off-grid, specifically
Meet Garry Williams
Founded in 1991, on a property with no power line.
Garry Williams started installing off-grid power in 1991, with Australia’s first generation of solar panels. That same year he bought bushland at Wootton, built there with hardwood and poured earth, and lived off the grid on that property for twenty-three years — testing every battery chemistry, regulator and inverter that came onto the Australian market on his own family’s power before it went near a customer’s system.
More than two hundred and fifty off-grid systems later, what he worked out at Wootton is the design standard here: size for the worst week of the year, install the generator as part of the system, and come back every year. We design, install and service to that standard on every job.
Garry Williams designed off-grid and hybrid solar systems from 1991, and set the standard we build to now.
- Founder – Empowered Offgrid
- SAA Accredited Installer, Stand-Alone Power Systems category, with battery endorsement
- Licensed electrical contractor, NSW licence 346636C
Our GUARANTEE
How we deliver
Sized for the worst week
We design against the week that tests the system, not the average one.
The generator is part of the design
Not an admission that the design fell short. We’ll tell you upfront how often you’ll hear it.
We come back
Every system, every year. Reliability is a maintenance schedule, not a product spec.
We'll tell you when not to buy
If the grid already reaches your boundary, connecting is usually cheaper, and we’ll say so.
Get a system designed for your place
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