[8] Dreaming of going off the grid

[8] Dreaming of going off the grid

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On the question if he would do anything differently if he could restart building his house, Kurt’s answer is clear: ‘I would have installed a larger PV system. Apart from that, I would do everything the same.’

‘Upgrading the PV system now would require new invertors and that is a substantial investment,’ he explains. ‘But maybe I’ll do that one day. I designed everything in such a way that I could go off the grid quite easily. That was another argument to make the PV system three-phased. Providing my own renewable energy autonomously from the grid would be a dream come true for me.’ As the interview ended, Kurt’s wife Lieve was leaving for a tennis match. By car. ‘The fact that we are still driving those oil-fueled cars with all their carbon emissions bothers me,’ she says. ‘I’ll be happy if one day we’ll be driving plug-in hybrids.’