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The OFF-GRID Remote Home

Your own independent Power System can provide most electric conveniences for an off-grid home, or in remote

locations where bringing in utility lines would be impossible or prohibitively expensive. Just extending utility power

1/4 mile or more to reach a home site can cost $15,000 or more, and thats before you have get power. Equipment to

produce your own solar electric power may cost less.

Natural & Free Energy already on your site in sunlight, wind, or falling water can be converted into electricity.

We specialize in power entirely from solar, wind, or micro hydro, plus generator back-up.

We use it. Most of our owners and employees live in homes that are comepletely or partially powered by renew-

able resources.

The amount of power your system can generate depends on the amount of natural energy resources your site has

available and how much equipment you install to gather the energy. How much benet you get out of your energy

depends on what type of lighting and appliances you have. You want appliances and lighting to be as efcient as

possible, so that means using special lighting, refridgerators, freezer that consume a fraction of the power normal

appliances use. Also use natural or propane gas for all your major heat production like as in cooking, water heat-

ing, clothes drying, and home heating. (Try to include some wood heat if possible.) Put in extra switches to cut off

phantom loads (loads that draw power even when turned off). Things like stereo, TV, garage door opener, and ofce

equipment. We often use DC lighting, DC motion sensor lights, and other DC appliances that can be wired directly

to the house battery bank to use no power when turned off. It is good to use heating systems that can heat your home

without using pumps or blowers to distribute the heat throughout your home.

Learn how to get the most out of little power by:

1. Design the whole house (water, heat, power) for low energy use.

2. Carefully select low energy lights & appliances

3. Eliminate energy wastes in appliances and from human carelessness.

After doing these three things you can get an affordable and efcient solar electric wind or micro hydro system that

can provide electricity for a comfortable independent home.

Efcency In An OFF-GRID Home

Most household appliances and lights use only a little electricity that can easily be supplied by renewable resourc-

es. Most off-grid homes convert most of their power to 120 volt AC to use as needed for household appliances and

lights. Most common used are: lights, water pump, TV, computer & ofce equipment. Even high wattage appliances

like microwave oven, toaster, hair dryer can be used because their actual running time is short. AC water pumps up to

1/2 horsepower are used. Electric refridgerators and freezers are selected carefully to save energy. Also gas and DC

refrigerates and freezers are used.

What To Avoid In An OFF-GRID Home

Major electric heating or cooling appliances, electric heat, electric hot water, electric cookstove, electric heated

clothes dryer and air conditioner account for 80% of a typical monthly electric bill. It is absolutely not practical to

run these appliances on 120 vac in a solar powered home. There are other options to produce heat at a much lower

cost. Use wood or propane fueled furnaces, gas cook stoves and water heaters. Use a gas clothes dryer or hang your

clothes out in the sun (natural clothes dryer).

Avoid large freezers and refridgerators. Most refrigerates have poor insulation and have a lot longer run time per

day then if you use a refridgerator or freezer designed for efciency and OFF-GRID homes. There are differnt types

available like gas powered or battery direct.

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