HPH061 : Should My House be Off-Grid?

If the idea of going 'off-grid' excites you, then perhaps now is
a great time to be doing it. We live in an era where the cost of
items such as solar panels is continually dropping and this is
juxtaposed with fossil fuel reserves that deplete day by
day.


While you may even be forced off-grid if you move to
a remote location, does it make sense going off-grid if you
have perfectly good access (for example, in a town or village)?
And with different grids -transport, gas, water - which is the
easiest to unplug from?!


In this discussion (which was one of our Google+ Hangouts)
we discuss some of the issues surrounding going off-grid.


The Panel


Mike Coe, who lives in the Cropthorne Autonomous House (and
was our guest in episode 54).


Paul Scheckel, author of The Home Energy Diet and The Homeowner's
Energy Handbook.


Ken Silverstein, an business journalist who specialises in
writing about energy