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Off the Grid: Never Paid an Electric Company Bill – Not Ever!
October 24th, 2009 | Author: admincato
A wind power and a solar power love story.
These are my friends, Mart and Cappy. They built this lovely log cabin home by hand on top of a mountain in Upstate New York about ten years ago. They have never been hooked up to the power grid, not ever, and have never paid an electric company power bill.
Mart and Cappy
Was it easy to do? Well relatively so. Has it saved them a ton of money? Well not sure exactly, but might be near the break even point. Those are some of the types of questions that I asked late this past summer the day I visited and took these photos.
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