My electric rate got hiked again.
I’m already planning a ~7 KW solar setup in the spring but I may see if I can go bigger and sooner.
My electric rate got hiked again.
I’m already planning a ~7 KW solar setup in the spring but I may see if I can go bigger and sooner.
oh man, it would be amazing to be completely off grid in the middle of a city. lol
AI data centers aren’t going up in the middle of cities…
They actually are. Musk is currently poisoning black kids in Memphis with a combo of data centers and hydrocarbon burning power sources (of questionable legality).
They aren’t going into affluent areas of big cities.
idgaf about datacenters. I just think it would be amazing to disconnect from the electrical grid and give them the finger in the middle of a city
Am offgrid, not in a city but not entirely fucking nowhere either. In the middle ground. Can confirm it feels good. Especially during storms when i can tell others power went out
i’m semi-middle ground too. not off grid, just got a generator. gotta tell you, it’s pretty nice not losing the contents of my fridge anymore
Why would you ever disconnect from the grid though? You can sell your power back and you can buy power as a backup if you just stay connected to it.
Because that increases the cost exponentially. As soon as you do grid connected with sellback there is a huge amount of red tape and the power company has to be involved then Blueprints and only approved installers can do the work.
Offgrid self consumption you can just do yourself. I spent roughly $20,000 on my stuff. But that got me a full pallet of 30 panels, 30 kWh of battery, 16,000 watts of inverter output.
For $20,000 most solar installers won’t even talk to you, at best they’ll give you like a small handful of panels and an inverter with no batteries. For a setup similar to mine you’d be looking at like minimum of $90,000 for grid tied from an installer. It just doesn’t make financial sense.
It’s honestly criminal the upcharge that solar installers take. It’s not even difficult work the NEC is freely available to all and while it is a lot of reading it’s less than a Harry Potter novel I was able to get through it all get my installation done and then had a master electrician come out and inspect it. Passed, it’s just about making sure you use the correct gauge of wire, make sure everything is spaced how it should be, make sure you have Breakers and disconnects in the correct places. Definitely not worthy of the ridiculous amount of money solar installers are charging
because I can
Good job not caring, proud of you.
i thought we’re talking about dale
They are in Australia. However home solar + battery adoption is also quite high and there are people who are effectively off-grid in the city as they supply a net surplus back to the grid.