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Going Off Grid with Solar and Batteries
We are going off grid by setting up big battery packs, inverters, and solar panels to power our house ourselves.
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We are busy getting our house off the grid. We have massive battery packs. Three of these packs are sixteen kilowatt hours each, making forty-eight kilowatt hours in total, which is half of a Tesla Model S. We also have an off-grid system with three Victron MultiPlus units and a Cerbo GX. We will build the whole power supply in one go. We will use fifty-one solar panels to generate solar energy and store it in battery packs for our own use. We will not return anything or buy anything, except perhaps going off the grid for one or two months per year. We are going to make our house self-sufficient. This is a monster project that will also be interesting for you now that the net metering rules are changing.
Steps
Step 1: Setting up batteries and power system
We prepared massive battery packs and off-grid system components.
What I'm going to use
Item Amount Notes Battery pack 3 16 kWh each, total 48 kWh Victron MultiPlus 3 Inverters Cerbo GX 1 System controller Step 2: Installing solar panels
We set up 51 solar panels to generate solar energy to store in battery packs for own use.
What I'm going to use
Item Amount Notes Solar panels 51 For generating solar energy
Everything I'm going to use
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Battery pack | 3 | 16 kWh each, total 48 kWh |
| Victron MultiPlus | 3 | Inverters |
| Cerbo GX | 1 | System controller |
| Solar panels | 51 | For generating solar energy |
Self-Sufficient House
We will store solar energy in battery packs for our own use and no longer depend on the grid.
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