A couple of years ago I made the decision to take my home office off the grid and start powering it with a small solar power generation/storage system.

Simply put, I grew weary of not being able to work during the outages that frequently shut down the power grid in my rural neighborhood.

I procured the parts necessary to build that first solar setup and I was so impressed with the results that I decided to take my entire home (mostly) off-grid, one step at a time.  [Read more…]