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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1425688)	11/18/2023 6:54:16 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574683

Good for you. I have a house up on Stuart Island in the San Juans of Washington State that has been "off grid" since it was built in 1991. It was the first house in the county at the time that had a code approved PV system. The entire island has no grid power. Approximately 50 homes their now get most or all of their electrical power from the Sun. Some also have wind turbines as do I. When I purchased it in 1997 I re engineered the PV, charge controller and inverter system and added more PV's. Got rid of the PMW controller and went to MPPT, added more PV's and ripped out the modified sine wave inverter and introduced a pure sine wave inverter. At the time I was a beta tester for Outback Power products. Yep, it was expensive but a lot cheaper than barging in propane that some of folks on the island use on the dark, north side of the island. Today equivalent total system costs are below about a dollar a watt. No fossil fuels can compete with that. The house had a back up Onan generator but I took that out about twenty years ago. It just wasn't needed anymore. It had a total run time of 160 hours on it since it was installed in 1991.