Hawkins Stock Transport Off-Grid Workshop

Hawkins Stock Transport (hawkinsstocktransport.com) are a family owned livestock transport business regularly moving cattle throughout New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland & South Australia. Their 3Ph workshop had been running on a 20kVA Kubota generator for 5 years and they were looking at around $100,000 to connect their property to the mains grid. So they looked into off-grid solar and battery options instead.

There was an existing shed on site which was suitable to install the solar on top, and the off-grid inverter and battery system within.

• Victron Quattro 8kW inverter/chargers
• Powerplus ECO batteries (40kWh)
• Trina Solar modules (10.89kW)
• Fronius Symo 8.2kW solar inverter

In 2022, Hawkins Stock Transport upgraded their storage capacity by 8kWh with another 2x Powerplus batteries.