{"id":54791,"date":"2021-10-13T05:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=54791"},"modified":"2024-04-12T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T01:48:37","slug":"off-grid-glen-morris-mb2192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/off-grid-glen-morris-mb2192\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Morris And The Community Living Off Grid Since 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Off-Grid Since 1974 &amp; Home To Glen Morris&#039;s Smart Energy Lab\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozn-Mnz-o-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a community just outside Melbourne in Victoria, Australia that has been living off-grid for decades. 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I&#8217;m speaking to you from my studio here at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mooramoora.org.au\/\"> Moora Moora Co-op<\/a> at Mount Toolebewong in the Yarra Valley. It&#8217;s the land of the Wurundjeri people, which is about 65 kilometres from Melbourne in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an intentional off-grid community that was set up way back in 1974. Right now, there&#8217;s about 70 people living in about 30 off-grid homes. While it started as more of an alternative living community concerned with ecology and social alternatives; these days the members come from a much more diverse range &#8211; including nurses, builders, academics, artists, electricians, and of course, solar installers like me.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually where I run my Smart Energy Lab from, which does field testing of solar, battery, energy management products and making online content for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCQE_gTtYc_t1yFepoXYUEtg\"> my YouTube channel<\/a> &#8211; and a bit of design consultancy for larger projects. Working from home has been the norm for me, even before COVID restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly I run residential solar and battery training courses here at the Moora Moor Co-op. We have two electricians who live on-site and can assist with the training and compliance; as well as one of the most extensive collections of battery and solar inverters in Australia, supplied by companies who wish my students to train on their products.<\/p>\n<p>We have recently gone all-electric with our vehicles too. There are now four EVs and two plugin EVs that are serviced by our newly built electric vehicle charging station that has three 22-kilowatt AC fast chargers, and numerous 10 amp slow charging outlets backed up by their own battery systems.<\/p>\n<p>I live with five other people. That&#8217;s three children and my partner, and we run various battery and solar PV systems such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/selectronic-review.html\"> Selectronic<\/a>, Alpha-ESS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/victron-energy-review.html\"> Victron inverters<\/a> connected to a range of batteries, including an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/reviews\/lg-chem-review.html\"> LG Chem<\/a> 13 kilowatt hour RESU, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/reviews\/alpha-ess-review.html\"> Alpha ESS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/reviews\/simpliphi-power-review.html\"> Simpliphi<\/a> Lithium ferro phosphate batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Generation is from 10 kilowatts of directly connected solar panels with another 50 kilowatts scattered across the roofs of my labs; including a 35 kilowatt solar tracker in the paddock 250 meters away.<\/p>\n<p>The house is constructed of straw bales with double glazing and a large amount of thermally separated thermal mass. 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