Tamworth gets serious sun and serious power bills, and it is one of the strongest regions in NSW for going partly or fully off the grid. Freedom Energy Solutions designs and installs solar, battery and stand alone systems across Tamworth and the North West, with installs run on scheduled trips to the region. Call 0420 141 078 and you talk to the local business, not a national sales desk.
We will not pretend to have a Tamworth depot. Our workshop is in Byron Bay, and our crew travels inland for booked installs, the same team that does every coastal job. Because Tamworth is a proper trip, we batch installs into scheduled runs across the New England and North West, lock your install date in with the quote, and cost the travel honestly instead of hiding it in the price.
Design happens before anyone travels: we work from your bills, roof or paddock imagery and a phone consultation, so when the crew arrives everything from rail lengths to switchboard parts is already on the ute. Most residential jobs are finished in one or two days on site.
We install three panel brands, all current N type technology: AIKO NEOSTAR with module efficiency up to 25.0 percent, Phono Solar with a 30 year Australian residential product warranty, and Trina Vertex S+ dual glass. The verified datasheet numbers are side by side on our panel brand comparison.
Batteries are Sigenergy, Sungrow and Fox ESS, modular stacks that suit everything from an evening load shift in town to a full stand alone homestead. See the battery brand comparison or the battery storage page.
Tamworth summers push panels hard. Output is rated at a cell temperature of 25 degrees and drops as cells heat beyond it, so on a 38 degree afternoon a cheap panel with a poor temperature coefficient gives away real production. The N type panels we install are chosen partly for their low temperature coefficients. Winter flips the equation: frosty mornings and clear inland skies keep cells cool and output per watt strong, with the shorter day handled by sizing.
Rural blocks around Tamworth often have something better than the house roof: a big north facing shed, or the space to ground mount at the ideal tilt. A machinery shed can carry a large array close to the loads it feeds, and a ground mount lets us set the exact angle and keep panels reachable for cleaning after a dusty harvest. We have built both, including a 12kW ground mount on red soil country, and we will tell you straight which suits your block.
Bore and irrigation pumps that surge on start, coolrooms that run all night, welders and compressors in the workshop: rural loads need the inverter sized for peaks and the battery sized for what actually runs after dark. We audit the real loads on the property before we size anything, which is the same discipline our off grid designs are built on.
Much of the country around Tamworth is fed by SWER lines, single wire earth return runs that are cheap to string across distance but thin on capacity and slow to repair after storms. If your property is at the end of one, or the connection quote for a new build runs to the price of a small house, a stand alone power system is often the better engineering answer, not a compromise.
We design full off grid systems for the North West: array sized on the worst winter month, battery sized on your real overnight loads, automatic generator backup for the dull weeks. Full off grid systems typically start around $35,000 installed. Start with the off grid solar page, and if you want the actual maths, our off grid system sizing guide walks through a worked example.
Tell us about your place, your bills and any farm loads, and we organise a phone consultation.
Roof, shed or ground mount, we design for your actual loads and give you a fixed quote.
Your date is locked in with the quote and our crew arrives with everything on the ute, usually one or two days on site.
Monitoring is set up and explained before we leave the property.
We watch performance remotely and answer the phone ourselves when you call.
Every roof and paddock is different, and travel is part of our costing, so the honest answer is a fixed quote. As a guide, here is where our residential systems start. Call 0420 141 078 for a realistic range over the phone.
Full off grid systems typically start around $35,000 installed, sized to your loads and autonomy target, with the assumptions in writing before work starts.
Indicative starting price for a straightforward single storey tin roof install. Your fixed quote reflects your actual roof or mounting choice, hardware, switchboard and travel. Federal small-scale certificate incentives typically reduce the out of pocket cost further, and we handle that paperwork for you.
Yes, heat costs every panel some output, which is exactly why panel choice matters here. Panels are rated at a 25 degree cell temperature and lose a percentage of output for every degree above it, set by their temperature coefficient. The N type panels we install have low coefficients, so they hold more of their rating through a 38 degree afternoon, and good airflow under the array helps too. Your winter mornings, cold and clear, are the flip side: excellent per watt production.
On rural blocks the shed or a ground mount often beats the house roof. A big north facing shed roof carries a large array cheaply, and a ground mount gives you the ideal tilt and easy cleaning access after dusty periods. We have built ground mounted systems on properties like these, including a 12kW array on red soil country, and we quote the options against each other so you can see the difference in dollars and output.
Yes, for booked work. We are upfront that we are Byron based: our team travels inland on batched trips covering Tamworth and the New England, your install date is locked in when you accept the quote, and the design is finished before anyone drives so the job runs in one or two days on site. Aftercare then runs through system monitoring and the phone, with a site visit scheduled if hardware ever needs hands on it.
Get an obligation free quote for solar, batteries or a full off grid system, designed for the North West.
Tell us what you are after and we will come back to you within one business day with real numbers for your property. Prefer to talk? Call 0420 141 078.
