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Chapter 6: Building Your Own Off the Grid System

Synopsis

Before you can sit back and enjoy yourself from living off the grid, of course, you will first need to build your own off the grid system. With the best off grid system, you can guarantee to have full enjoyment of the method you have chosen.

Living off the grid means that you will no longer use any public utility and rather produce your own power. Yet, what is really involved in such method? Indeed, it is not as simple as placing a couple of solar panels on your roof and claiming it good.

In terms of building off grid system, there are a number of techniques which you can combine in order to produce the entire amount of energy you will need to live off the grid comfortably.

Your Own System

You can use solar electricity to connect to off grid power. Probably, solar power is the one that pops up in the mind of most people when heard about off grid energy. This is the option powered by the sun, which requires the presence of photovoltaic solar panels, batteries and an inverter, can offer huge amount of electric power for quite a long time without the presence of stirring parts and a bit maintenance.

This is especially true if you the site you are at acquire lots of sun exposure. It only means that you have to check whether there is anything blocking the rays of the sun from shining on your roof. Make sure to purchase only high quality solar panels, which you will install on your roof. Ensure that the spot where you set them up is greatly hit by the sunlight to guarantee efficient collection of energy.

Another great source to build your own off grid system is wind electricity. After you receive good news upon getting in touch with your local weather operator to monitor on the typical wind speed within your area, producing electricity from residential sized wind turbines could be another great option to acquire off grid energy.

Being aware of the average and the range of wind speed within your area will enable you to create estimation of the electricity a certain system can produce. Always bear in mind that wind speed on a particular site may significantly vary from local averages relying on regional topography.

In terms of selecting the turbines, size matters a lot. A wind turbine powered by 400-watt, which is sufficiently big to cover a number of appliances, utilizes around a 4-foot-diameter rotor. A turbine powered by 900-watt utilizes a 7-foot turbine.

A 10kW or 10,000 -watt turbine, which is enough to support all or most of home appliances, utilizes a 23-foot turbine. This is installed on the tower usually more than 100-feet tall. Evidently, living within a minute plot or town, the huge one is not going to function very well, so you have to consider carefully which type of turbine you should be using in your site. Before deciding to go with hydro-power you have to make sure that your site is receiving sufficient amount of breeze that will support the whole system.

Being the most expensive off grid power to generate among the three, microhydro electricity is probably the least known. This form of electricity utilizes the source of running water source, such as a stream, in order to produce electricity. The electricity is generated from the energy of flowing water coming from high level going down to the lower level, which turns the turbine located at the system’s end.

Hence, depending on what your chosen site can offer, you may freely choose the type of electricity you want to power your off-grid system. Having these details in mind may somehow help you deal with the generation.

Chapter 7: Living Off the Grid with Wind Generator

Synopsis

If you are lucky and choose a site that is rich in breeze required to support a wind generator, then going with wind electricity should give you the trick. Wind power functions in the same way as solar power does. An average residential sized wind turbine may appear like an airplane propeller that sits on top of a 50-foot up to 120-foot tower.

As wind blows, its blades begin moving and spinning the shaft, which leads from the rotor’s hub to the generator. The generator may take the energy generated from such rotation and then converts it into a form of electricity.

Generator?

Just like solar cells, the electricity produced by these wind turbines is changed into functional AC power using the inverter. A lot of users choose to combine their wind energy with conventional power in order to generate an improvised system, which will lessen their bills.

During these instances, the electricity produced will then be stored by the public utility companies. When the energy you generate is higher than your consumption, there are some states that will actually enable you from selling the electricity back into a utility company.

On the other hand, in order to live off the grid, you have to cut the ties completely with the energy company. Through this possibility, the energy you generate will then be stored in the system of batteries in the form of DC power and will be converted into AC power once require it.

Typically, the battery system should be designated in the shed or garage close to a power source.

Wind power is considered as the cheapest and cleanest energy innovation used all over the globe. The typical price for every kilowatt hour on coal-burning electricity is 10.4 cents during the year 2006.

Wind energy may be produced from the limited of 3 cents every hour in maximum conditions. In addition to its favorable cost is the fact that there are no any greenhouse emissions that are produced. That is why there is no longer a surprise why the utilization of wind power is fast growing.

To be able to generate wind power, you will need the utilization of wind turbines. These wind turbines are an efficient and clean method of rotating raw kinetic wind energy into an electric power.

These tools may be directly connected into some machinery to acquire mechanical energy. They may also be alternatively connected to electric generators and may produce electricity.

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