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Given this discussion (and as someone that lives in a very rural area), I am planning to go entirely off-grid with solar and batteries. I am no longer interest
by voakbasda 4y ago
Given this discussion (and as someone that lives in a very rural area), I am planning to go entirely off-grid with solar and batteries. I am no longer interested in a grid-tied system in any way, shape, or form.
Under no circumstances would I install a system that could be remotely powered down to save the grid, when the grid itself is the source of the problem.
It’s like the power companies want their cake and to eat it too.
- yencabulator 4y agoYeah. If I put in enough solar & batteries to fully serve this largish house, the local utility will still make me pay about half of my current electric bill. It'd make more sense to go off-grid and buy a generator for backup.
- voakbasda 4y agoMy electricity provider’s unreliability already forced me to buy a generator. As far as I understand, that also brings up the true farce about grid-tied solar: you are still at the utility company’s mercy to keep the grid working, because the solar system only works when there is grid power. Insane.