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Converting to what? Workshop? Accommodation? Year round use?
The biggest problem with off-grid solar is you get orders of magnitude less energy during winter and even bright summer overcast days, so you either need massive batteries, massive panels or an alternative way to charge them.
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Will be a bit of everything!
Definetly a office, gym and craft room with a small shower room and kitchenette. In the future we may switch it to being a holiday let, so there is a degree of future proofing going on.
I can probably run a line from the main house for flow issues, but might not have enough spare power to fully run it.
Sam_w
Has anyone had solar and more importantly associated batteries installed recently?
We are converting an outbuilding, and one issue we are running into is getting electric to it could be an expensive job, so pondering the alternative of solar panels and batteries. There is not going to be anything pulling a lot of electric in there, so wondering if I can do it "off grid".