cooling

Cooling was an easy decision. Installing ducted air conditioning might seem counterintuitive for an off-grid, energy efficient house, but one of the learnings from the shed is that there is a lot of excess energy available in summer. When you do the numbers, it works easily. Depending on our final system sizing, it might notContinue reading “Cooling”

Starting the load list

So we knew that the most important place to start with the solar system for the house was to work out what our electrical load was going to be, in both summer and winter, and what compromises we were prepared to make to our day to day living. We use approximately 12 kWhr/day at theContinue reading “Starting the load list”