Something that I’ve been thinking about lately is charging electric vehicles off-grid. How do you support off-grid electric vehicles with their high power demands? Charging up your EV can take up a considerable amount of your solar array capacity. Especially when you don’t have the grid tie in to balance things out at night. In …
A Biodigester is a relatively new option for off-grid use and something you should be considering. There are more and more options when it comes to renewable fuels in your off-grid build. Creating your own biogas from your organic waste is a sustainable option for those choosing to live off-grid. The biogas and the by-products …
This easy guide to off-grid batteries will help you choose the battery storage solution that best works for you. This guide will highlight the various battery technologies available for the off-grid build. Your power usage and generation will determine the requirements for your off-grid batteries and your overall system design. Power Requirements According to the …
Throughout my research of all the different off grid power systems almost all of them seem to have pretty outrageous costs involved in getting something big enough to power a house or two.
What do you do when you don’t have the convenience of grid power ? You have to design and build an off grid power system. From my research I’ve found they can be referred to as Remote Area Power Systems (RAPS) or Stand Alone Power Systems (SAPS). This means that you have to generate and store …