That’s awesome! It’s insane the choke hold the power mafias have on us. Here, we have Alabama Power that has huge lines ran down the mountain on the back side of our property, but yet, we have to purchase our power from a Coop 3rd party. Stupid. Then they want to try and charge for solar hookups and such and charge you to run power through their lines before you get paid anything in overage. The lady at the 3rd party that we get power from told me how to get around it with a smaller setup than I had planned, or I told her about mining and she said that was a perfect way to use up the extra power and get paid for it, lol. Lady knows what’s up! Lol. But yeah, I have been dealing with AP on this for years and they wanted to charge me an arm and a leg to produce the power. It’s ridiculous. So, for now I am going to piece mill my little portable panels for smaller usage until I can get the grid tie inverters that I need.
Note, I lived on solar for 4 years while living the van life so I have some knowledge in this area for sure!
Indeed. It's convoluted. I had to deal with the contractor, the city planning department, and AEP to get this done. I've been at it since April. I was hoping to have solar for the summer, my most expensive months. But it worked out that as soon as the dog days of summer ended, I finally got the net meter.
If I want to upgrade the system, I have to go through all that again.
I have thoughts of building out a barbecue trailer with a PV roof that I can plug into the house with a grid tie inverter from Amazon. It's not a permanent structure nor part of the house, so no permits. And there are no rules for barbecue trailers other than traffic rules. And maybe I can rent it out on occasion.
Yeah I have been looking into making “mobile” units that I could put some batteries and maybe even hook a computer up in there and mine some Monero, 😂