Think twice before going 'off the grid'

Australia is currently experiencing soaring power costs that are dramatically intersecting with the increasing availability of affordable and efficient renewable energy, such as solar panels and battery storage units.

The Solar Settlement, a sustainable housing community project in Freiburg, Germany. 

So why wouldn’t it seem attractive, even liberating, to take your home and yourself “off the grid”?

You could draw your electricity from your roof via an inexhaustible sun, while saving dollars and escaping gouging corporate providers. At the same time, you’d be doing your bit for the environment.

Perhaps, as a step further, you could take a small community of like-minded people with you.

Certainly, Australians are embracing solar.

Read the Pursuit piece by Gary Tippett from the University of Melbourne “Think twice before going 'off the grid'.”