"Great for a novice or anyone getting into solar." Off-grid homeowner shares honest regrets and thoughts one year after going ...

"We have no power bill, no fuel bill, all the things that you would have in an on-grid house." Couple shares candid thoughts ...

With the growing interest in off-grid solutions, particularly among those looking to escape the high costs of conventional energy, Off-Grid Power Secrets fills a critical gap.

Designing the 'good enough' battery system There is, I suppose, a "right way" to design an off-grid solar power system with the ideal number and size of batteries to get you through long nights or ...

What is Smart Water Box? The Smart Water Box is a DIY off-grid water generation system that extracts clean, drinkable water ...

With a modest budget of just AUD $35,000 (around USD $23,000), he hand-built a beautiful off-grid tiny house that is more of a unique sanctuary of peace, creativity, and slow living.

Chiggers Stokes created DIY Hydropower for his remote off-grid cabin and learned hard lessons along the way. In July of 1978, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, I stood on land shown on ...

Car camping gets you out in the great outdoors, but sometimes it’s nice to bring a few comforts from home. [Ed’s Garage] has taken a module from a salvaged EV and turned it into a handy porta… ...

I’ve been living off-grid for almost half a decade, but I haven’t had to live a single day offline. Working in journalism and communications, I need access to the latest news and enough ...

Rhode Island ranked the worst for off-grid living, followed by New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut also ranked among the worst states for self-sufficient ...