Getting Green Off The Grid

Another story of a man living off the grid.

Home Alone–Living Off the Grid

When Bob Hammond built a house near Prescott, Arizona, he decided to get off the utility grid. To do so, he designed a home that uses only about 855 kWh of electricity a year, a fraction of the 9,300 kWh of neighboring homes. He turned to photovoltaic (PV) solar panels to generate electricity from direct sunlight, designing a 1,400W system that is totally independent of the utility power grid.

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