Anyone using solar panels for their house?

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by mike31154

If you can swing a hybrid system by combining, wind, solar even micro hydro, you'd have the advantages of different technology, but it gets complicated & who has a creek with an elevation drop of 100' running through their property? I've been to a few backcountry lodges in recent years & most of them rely on solar and/or micro hydro power. It's cost effective for them since the cost to fly in fuel for a diesel or gas powered generator is prohibitive.

There are a few cabins at our lake that are lucky enough to be near a mountain stream, and have employed small water turbines. Those are by far the most economical, and don't need as many batteries either because of the steady supply of power.