Trentham Energy

Off-grid region

Off-grid power through the Goulburn Valley and along the Murray.

Irrigation country and river blocks, from Shepparton up to the border — where the loads are often bigger than the house.

The country

What Goulburn Valley & the Murray asks of a system.

Around Shepparton, Echuca and the river blocks, the interesting part is rarely the dwelling. It is the pump, the cool room, the packing shed or the irrigation system, and those loads are what actually determine the design.

Pump starting current in particular catches a lot of standalone systems out. An inverter that comfortably runs a house will trip on a bore pump kicking in. We size for starting loads, not just running loads, and use soft starts where they make more sense than a bigger inverter.

  • Pump starting current sized for properly — the most common off-grid design failure
  • Irrigation and cool-room duty cycles mapped across the season, not averaged
  • Three-phase supply where the loads genuinely warrant it
  • River-flat flooding and equipment height considered at siting
Off-grid solar work in Goulburn Valley & the Murray

Towns we work in

Across Goulburn Valley & the Murray.

These are the centres we're regularly in. If your property isn't near one of them, ask anyway — off-grid is the work we'll travel for.

SheppartonEchucaKyabramNumurkahCobramNathalia

Off-grid in Goulburn Valley & the Murray?

Tell us where the property is, what's on it and what you need to run. We'll tell you honestly whether standalone power stacks up, and what it would take.