I can see old EV batteries getting a second life doing this. The state will then charge you a fee for not using electricity they generate.
Go harder, disconnect from the grid.
Jackery/similar power station as your main power supply for the house, charged by solar and a backup generator. Or you could keep the grid connection just to keep as a backup. Either way that largely isolates your house from the grid in a way that plug in solar doesn’t.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Nevada NV Energy just put in a surcharge for those with roof top solar.
in Australia if you can be connected to the grid and you do not, they charge you network maintenance fees anyway, yiu just dont oay fir power.
That said I lived off grid in the bush for a decade.
I’m now on grid and i feed power into the grid from my roof top solar, last months bill was in credit for $45 (albeit I wasn’t} home for the month) and I charge my ebike and ecar as well off solar when i am home. I have 8.6kW of grid feed solar on the roof (notional)