Tweed Solar

11/19/2025

Over in Barrie doing some skills training. So much new equipment and options...

03/25/2025

We are really excited about this project!
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08/16/2024

A few pictures of a recent build we are working on. Also a video of the panel lift in action.

12/04/2023

Battery bank clean up and cable replacement. Original cables were installed without washers, lock washers or Stainless steel hardware. Looking much better now. Winter is a tough time for off grid systems. If yours is giving you trouble we can come out and evaluate your system for you...

12/20/2022

I've been doing some work recently at Earth Haven Biodynamic Farm trying to bring their grid interactive system back to life. The system itself is about 10 years old and has 6Kw of panels on two arrays, a pair of Schneider's first generation conext inverters and originally a wopping 80KwHr of battery storage. It was sitting turned off for almost 2 years as they tried to find someone to fix it. I do like a challenge! So this is something unfortunately you come across in the industry; a system that was quite pricey but set up wrong for the clients needs. There are lots of factors that go into a successful design but the first one is always listening. In this case the original designer chose to ignore the fact that there was a grid already present and chose to set them up as if they were totally offgrid. A backup generator would recharge the batteries when there was not enough sun and the large battery bank would store days worth of power but the solar arrays were not big enough to ever fully charge it... They never bothered hooking up the grid to the inverter or seting up the inverter properly or explaining the system to the people paying for it and running it. The consequence was a grid interactive inverter set up with one arm tied behind its back and clients left to figure things out as best they could a generator that ran all the time and a battery bank that failed from being sulphated from undercharging. After some rewiring, and mostly reprogramming of the unit, the system now uses the grid if there is not enough sun, keeps a smaller battery pack charged fully, uses as much solar power during the day as possible and in the case of an outage uses its battery reserves but then can turn on the generator to recharge. All that without any input from the end users unless they want to intervene. As it should have been from the beginning... It was a rewarding experience though a little frustrating.

12/17/2022

What a nice write up. Thank you Earth Haven Biodynamic Farm for the warm words. We got it done just in time for the power outage season.

Thank you to David Baillie of Tweed Solar for getting our off-grid solar system back up and running. He did some awesome reprogramming of the system. Anyone needing assistance with your solar panels and systems, this is your guy. Great service, very knowledgeable and local.

Contact David Baillie at 705-457-5899
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11/21/2022

That was a big snowfall. Cleaning off the array.

11/10/2022

November is the time when older battery banks tend to show their age. We are gearing up to replace this 8 Year old bank with a new AGM one along with new cables.

10/19/2022

We are a small solar company located in Tweed Ontario. We design energy systems, sell equipment and parts, Service and upgrade existing systems and consult on projects. We concentrate on Listening first then creating energy options for our clients that meet their needs.