Living off-grid is a great way to reduce your monthly expenses as well as your environmental impact. But in the beginning, there's definitely a learning curve. A new homesteader reached out to learn ...

In an effort to become more sustainable, a number of people have moved off the grid. While off-grid living falls under a large umbrella, the basic definition is a lifestyle where the home is not ...

If you connect your panels to the grid, you won't be responsible for producing all your own energy. That's not the case if you go off the grid. Going solar doesn't mean going off the grid -- unless ...

I had been planning to move off-grid for the past 10 years, but I didn't know how it was going to happen. I didn't have the money, and I didn't know where my family and I would go, but I was slowly ...

Kicking your utility to the curb sounds like a great deal, but it's more difficult than it sounds. Here's what it takes to go off the grid with solar panels. CNET contributor Eric Mack knows all too ...

So, you've thought about whether or not living off the grid is right for you; you know that it means no more utility bills and generating all of your own power, but what's involved in that? It isn't ...

Vanessa Corby was quoted £44,000 for a connection to mains electricity Some 2,000 households are thought to be off-grid in the UK, having no access to mains power. With connections quoted at prices up ...

Perhaps you’re dreaming of obtaining your home’s electricity without having to rely on that provided by your town or city. If so, you’re hoping to go “off the grid.” And if that’s your dream, you’ve ...

One of the questions I’m asked most often is whether I think the future of power in the U.S. will be on-grid or off-grid. My answer is that it's the wrong question. Like most complex subjects—and ...

Citing more blackouts, wildfires and higher electricity rates, a growing number of homeowners are choosing to build homes that run entirely on solar panels and batteries. Wim Coekaerts’s off-grid home ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link 10. New York Percentage of #offgridliving posts: 3.46% Off-grid tip: Diane Vuković, an author and writer for the blog Primal Survivor who ...