Hybrid solar: How to kiss the grid goodbye (Australia)

[DCKit]

2. Only works where you have reliable grid service.

Where I'm headed, power is lost often, and they have constant fluctuations. One friend, with a house full of electronics, is often raging on the subject.

Ice storm are a high probability, and the last big one (a long time back, to be honest) left most of two counties without power for two weeks.

In the meantime, our house is off-grid and we just have to suck up the cost of batteries... which, over the past twelve years, is still less than we would have been charged for running power lines for the privilege of paying a monthly electric bill. The system we've got (totally adequate), would cost less then half what it did, now.