Off-Grid Solar for Queensland Farms, Commercial and Island Sites

Ergon Energy runs roughly 65,000 kilometres of Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) line across regional Queensland, one of the largest SWER networks in the world. It supplies about 4% of Ergon's customers while making up around 40% of the network, and most of it was built in the 1970s and 1980s.

That maintenance bill gets spread across every connection on the fringe of the grid. Ergon Energy has been installing network-owned stand-alone power systems at some fringe-of-grid sites instead of rebuilding long lines, because it is often cheaper to generate the power where it is used than to keep patrolling a line to reach it.

If your property sits at the end of a long SWER run, you are already paying for infrastructure that rarely gives you full reliability. We design the system that replaces it, built to AS/NZS 4509 and AS/NZS 5139, and hand you the Certificate of Testing and Compliance that proves it.

From domestic and commercial work to industrial machinery, air conditioning, data and solar, Boden has covered the full spread of electrical trade work. As power prices climbed, farms and commercial clients started asking for a real way to cut the grid connection loose.

Handy Hands Electrical Pty Ltd was set up to do exactly that: off-grid systems built to standard, with the compliance paperwork done properly. You always speak with the person doing the work, not a call centre.