Case Studies

Rod and his wife Jane, based in Sydney and building a weekend and future retirement property in the lower Hunter Valley, faced a familiar rural problem: connecting to the grid meant negotiating a caveat over a neighbour's property, three to four new power poles, a transformer, and a design and application process costing $10,000 on…

Julie-Anne lives across two tiny houses joined by a large deck — classified by council as a manufactured home, which allows permanent living on the block. The property has no services connected at all, and independence was always the plan: before settling on the land, she spent close to three years living off a solar…

Before moving to this property, Lance and Carole lived a few kilometres away and were connected to the grid. They found the supply unreliable — power dropped out in every storm, and prices kept climbing. That experience attracted them to move away from the grid and look into solar power for the new property.