In May 2014, we decided to leave the 9 to 5 and get off the grid. We found a school bus and are transforming it into a skoolie

4 solar panels @ 150 watts each for 600 watts total output. 19.5 volt no load output each panel to the charge controller. System wired for 12 volts to the controller

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WindKinetic is a leading designer and manufacturer of micro wind turbines and hybrid systems for off-grid applications. WindKinetic produces horizontal axis and vertical axis wind turbines and markets all subsidiaries instrumentations required to complete a stand-alone off-grid system.

WindKinetic is a leading designer and manufacturer of micro wind turbines and hybrid systems for off-grid applications. WindKinetic produces horizontal axis and vertical axis wind turbines and markets all subsidiaries instrumentations required to complete a stand-alone off-grid system

A view of the house facing East

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Finally a comfortable solar heated room

Suitable for areas where power cut is frequent and objective is power backup for homes/small businesses. System is not connected to the grid and comes with batteries for backup during power cuts.

Metal panels for the area behaind the stove and refrigerator.

Mac unloads 500 bales. It's work!

The sunroom begins in stages.

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Ten-year-old, offgrid, lime-plastered strawbale house

WindKinetic is a leading designer and manufacturer of micro wind turbines and hybrid systems for off-grid applications. WindKinetic produces horizontal axis and vertical axis wind turbines and markets all subsidiaries instrumentations required to complete a stand-alone off-grid system.

d.light customer in India

This side event, co-hosted by IRENA and Norway, presented IRENA’s findings on off-grid and brought together practitioners to share experiences and identify concrete actions needed to scale-up off-grid renewable energy deployment.

This is a portable solar power system designed to be used 2 different ways. The actual sling pack can be carried without the hard case to keep weight down or the sling pack can be placed into the waterproof hard case so the battery and electronics are protected from bad weather.

This system has a battery capacity of 40 Amp Hours @ 12.8V DC. The MPPT Solar Charge Controller can handle 200w of Solar input at any given time. The DC output is limited to 40 Amps. The AC Inverter is 400W continuous. The solar panels shown are GSE P3-62 62w Folding solar panels and weight about 3 pounds each.

More info at www.PortableSolarPower.Biz

Rear storage bay, spare tire, jack, lug wrench, emergency triangles, tow lights, little scissor jack, and wheel chocks

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Labradorable Bear helps lay local rock for a patio.

The YA crew follows Willy to check out his off-grid house and pond and waterwheel set-up.