Tag: Solar power

The other night at dinner, my phone chimed. It was a message saying grid power had been restored. After confirming this was the case,...

18 days after Hurricane Helene, some forward progress is being made here on the homestead and in our broader area.

A sunny month of August shows us how much power we can produce and the resulting utility bill blows us away.

It's a good time of year for homesteading, but the calendar also makes it an important time to do some prepping.

The numbers are in! See how much our solar power system produced, how much electricity we saved, and how much lower our bill was.

Prepping is a journey, and sometimes it is important to stop, take a break, and appreciate how much progress you have made.

Just after we get our solar power system installed, the weather turns cloudy and rainy. We're still making power, just not as much.

We learn some of the challenges of living with solar power, especially in a house that is not optimized to minimize consumption.

Our solar power installation concludes, but it doesn't go to plan. We're operating on solar, but we don't have any air conditioning.

Everything goes well with the solar system install until an unexpected problem pops up on Day 4 when it is about 90 percent complete.