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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Actually, I can't. It's against the law. Unless I am on rural unimproved land I am NOT allowed to do whatever the hell I want. I am not allowed to disconnect from the grid and run under my own solar installation, because of the laws that protect the monopoly owned by the electric companies. I'm sure the same applies to you in Alberta. Once connected, they own you. They can arbitrarily disconnect you from the grid at their liking, but you are not allowed to disconnect and be self sufficient.
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Yeah man, lots of the solar nerds I talk with have it as a major status symbol to be off the electric and gas grid out here. They tend to do it with PV, batteries, buried geothermal loops and heat pumps. No one brags about being off the water and sewage grid yet but those technologies are also abundant LOL