Many solar businesses aren’t interested in selling an off-the-grid option. Going completely off the grid requires more cash, more equipment and for the average solar customer, a company willing to help. They aren’t paying SDG&E anymore but they’re still relying on it for backup. Most people end up doing something akin to Off-the-Grid Lite. Going off the grid means producing all your own energy, including supplying your own backup power when your solar panels don’t produce enough to support your needs rather than relying on a utility, like SDG&E. But you’ll need more than just solar panels to actually cut the cord. It’s true that a large enough solar panel system will produce as much or even more power than you need, and can offset your SDG&E bills entirely. Many solar converts brag that they’re going to cut their ties with San Diego Gas & Electric and go off the grid.

Brews & News: Voice of San Diego Live Podcasts.The cover by Reese Dante fits most of the State of Love series and it gives the reader a small glimpse of the plot.Few Solar-Powered Homes Are Truly Off the Grid Close Unfortunately, there’s nothing memorable about it to make the story unique. Overall, it is another nice story by one of my favorite authors. I don’t think I learned any new details about North Dakota. Their love is beautiful even when the reader is not a witness to it.Īs for the setting, the descriptions in the story could have been taking place in any oil loving state like Texas or Oklahoma. It’s obvious they still love each other and they do their best to maintain their relationship. They are an established couple suffering from a lack of time together. The romance between the main characters takes place before the story begins. At moments, it felt too detailed and other parts just glanced over. Almost like a manual on how Clay and Elliott remodeled their cabin and spent their winters in it. Going Off Grid is literally a story about living in the middle of nowhere. But when they go from all the conveniences of the modern world to outhouses, solar power, a shoestring budget, and more mosquitos than they ever thought possible, will they find there’s such a thing as too much time together? They’re going off the grid and fixing up an old cabin so they can be self-sufficient.

What they’ve always wanted is to be together and have time to enjoy it, so they follow their hearts. Should they find comparable work somewhere else, or is it time to throw caution to the wind and go after their goal-years earlier than they intended? The pay is good, but is it a fair trade for never seeing each other? The point becomes moot when the company folds, like so many others, and the couple is left with a difficult choice. Clay and Elliott are working toward a dream-working sixty-hour weeks for one of the oil companies that recently sprung up in North Dakota.

Going Off Grid by S.J.D. Peterson