{"id":55054,"date":"2021-10-20T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=55054"},"modified":"2021-10-20T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:55:23","slug":"off-grid-solar-city-mb2201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/off-grid-solar-city-mb2201\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Going Off-Grid In The City? 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And who could blame them? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The idea of energy independence is very attractive, but there are some very good reasons for keeping a mains grid connection.<\/p>\n<p>This segment is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sqtv-ep9-off-grid-mb2180\/\"> SolarQuotes TV Episode 9<\/a>, which is all about off-grid living in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transcript begins<\/p>\n<p><b>Finn:<\/b> Now, here&#8217;s a question we get asked all the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fed up with paying a daily charge to access the grid. How do I tell my retailer to get stuffed and take my suburban house totally off the grid?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s certainly possible to go off grid in the city, and it has been done with varying degrees of success in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The example I&#8217;m going to take is in the Perth suburbs. It was built by a bloke called Martin Chape and he started the project way back in 2011. The system has evolved over the years, and now he&#8217;s settled on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10kW of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\"> solar<\/a><\/li>\n<li>a 20kWh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/reviews\/byd-review.html\"> BYD battery<\/a><\/li>\n<li>a diesel generator<\/li>\n<li>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/selectronic-review.html\"> Selectronic<\/a> SP Pro inverter to control the battery and genset<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/off-grid-solar-city-mb2201\/#en-55054-1' id='enref-55054-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(55054)'>1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>and a Selectronic-compatible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/fronius-review.html\"> Fronius<\/a> Primo solar inverter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like a similar set-up on your home, professionally designed and installed, don&#8217;t expect much change from $50,000 &#8211; and you&#8217;ll still need to pay for diesel.<\/p>\n<h2>Forget Off-Grid In The Suburbs &#8211; Go Hybrid<\/h2>\n<p>So, now Martin has a system working nicely after many years of experimenting, what is his advice to others who want to go off-grid in the city?<\/p>\n<p>Simple: Don&#8217;t &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/hybrid\/\"> go hybrid<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid is simply solar, batteries and the grid connection. Martin has realised that if you have a grid connection available, you should absolutely use it as a cheap, silent backup generation source. It means you don&#8217;t need a dirty gen set, and you can get away with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\"> less expensive battery storage<\/a>. And, there&#8217;s no need for a specialist off-grid design and install.<\/p>\n<p>It will save you a fortune.<\/p>\n<p>So, to answer the question that we get all the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Can you go off-grid in the city?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, absolutely you can. The technology is available. It works brilliantly. But I wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d keep that connection to the grid. You&#8217;ll still get no bills, but you&#8217;ll have that grid connection and you can share your solar with your neighbours<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/off-grid-solar-city-mb2201\/#en-55054-2' id='enref-55054-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(55054)'>2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transcript ends<\/p>\n<p>For more examples of Australians living comfortably off-grid, view <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sqtv-ep9-off-grid-mb2180\/\">SolarQuotes TV Episode 9<\/a>. For other SQTV episodes and great videos on solar power and battery storage, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SolarQuotesAU\">our Youtube channel<\/a> &#8211; and don&#8217;t forget to subscribe!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you&#8217;re still keen an off-grid system for your suburban (or rural) home, it&#8217;s incredibly important to choose an installer with the right skills and experience. 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