Posted by Ron Rosenfeld on January 23, 2006, 10:42 am
wrote:
>Ron Rosenfeld wrote:
>> We live off-grid in an area where most are on the grid.
>>
>> When people ask us why we are off the grid, I tell them that Bangor Hydro
>> wanted $40,000+ to hook up to the grid. So we decided to spend the money
>> on our off-grid system instead. We don't have any electric bills, or power
>> outages, etc.
>>
>> Almost invariably, the next question is, "Do you sell electricity back to
>> Bangor Hydro?"
>That's an Emera company, isn't it? Same company that owns our local utility
>(NS Power).
>>
Yes, Emera purchased them in 2001
>>
>> Is this sort of question commonly posed to other off-gridders?
>Nobody's ever asked me that one :-)
Maybe folk listen to what you say, in your area.
-- ron (off the grid in Downeast Maine)
Posted by Steve Spence on January 24, 2006, 10:06 pm
Ron Rosenfeld wrote:
> We live off-grid in an area where most are on the grid.
>
> When people ask us why we are off the grid, I tell them that Bangor Hydro
> wanted $40,000+ to hook up to the grid. So we decided to spend the money
> on our off-grid system instead. We don't have any electric bills, or power
> outages, etc.
>
> Almost invariably, the next question is, "Do you sell electricity back to
> Bangor Hydro?"
>
> Duh!
>
> Is this sort of question commonly posed to other off-gridders?
>
>
> -- ron (off the grid in Downeast Maine)
yes, and "where are the power lines".
--
Steve Spence
Dir., Green Trust, http://www.green-trust.org
Contributing Editor, http://www.off-grid.net
http://www.rebelwolf.com/essn.html
Posted by Ron Rosenfeld on January 25, 2006, 6:01 am
wrote:
>>"where are the power lines".
That's one we haven't got. But we don't get many visitors.
-- ron (off the grid in Downeast Maine)
Posted by Derek Broughton on January 25, 2006, 8:28 am
Ron Rosenfeld wrote:
> wrote:
>
>
>>>"where are the power lines".
>
> That's one we haven't got. But we don't get many visitors.
I'll see your "where are the power lines" and raise you.
My wife called me at work one day to tell me she'd just found a confused NS
Power meter reader looking for our meter. It hadn't occurred to him that
if there were no power lines...
--
derek
Posted by Ron Rosenfeld on January 25, 2006, 11:57 am
wrote:
>I'll see your "where are the power lines" and raise you.
>My wife called me at work one day to tell me she'd just found a confused NS
>Power meter reader looking for our meter. It hadn't occurred to him that
>if there were no power lines...
That's very funny!
-- ron (off the grid in Downeast Maine)
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>> We live off-grid in an area where most are on the grid.
>>
>> When people ask us why we are off the grid, I tell them that Bangor Hydro
>> wanted $40,000+ to hook up to the grid. So we decided to spend the money
>> on our off-grid system instead. We don't have any electric bills, or power
>> outages, etc.
>>
>> Almost invariably, the next question is, "Do you sell electricity back to
>> Bangor Hydro?"
>That's an Emera company, isn't it? Same company that owns our local utility
>(NS Power).
>>