Category: electricity

  • Saving energy and money with off-grid household items

    Living off the grid is a challenging effort, but the success of the lifestyle is worth the effort. Living off the grid essentially means using nothing more but renewable energy sources, like wind or sun for power supply. Maybe to have the entire home power supplied with a renewable energy might be a little difficult […]

  • Flexible solar panel – extremely off-grid power source

    My story about renewable energy sources begins in 2006 when I bought my Volkswagen RV/camper. At the end of summer that year I bought my first renewable energy source — the first solar panel. I wanted it to be a off-grid energy source for my first camping holidays, but only found out that such panels […]

  • How I spent summer off-grid holiday and loved it!

    For those of you who read my blog for a while it won’t be a surprise when I write that I own a Volkswagen Vanagon Camper (RV) and spend some time camping in it each summer. This year I had my first fully off-grid holiday. Last year I connected the camper to the mains on […]

  • 5 things you need to produce solar electricity

    If you want to produce renewable and free electrical power using solar energy, here’s a list of things you absolutely need. 1. Solar radiation It’s obvious, right? No, it’s not! Not for many people! Solar radiation is everywhere, but not everywhere it’s enough to produce electricity using solar photovoltaic module. All the modules are described […]

  • Hard rime cuts people off the grid

    In some areas od Poland people are disconnected from the electrical grid by the weather. A lot of hard rime covered electrical lines and caused some pylons to break. It is not uncommon in Poland to have temperatures below -20°C (-4°F). But such weather with very high humidity is not something we would expect.