I live on the Campo in Spain, I live totally of grid using solar panels and a wind turbine charging leisure batteries with a charge control system and an inverter for mains power , with a back up Honda generator for the odd dull week , it works perfectly and has done for the last ten years , No Electric Bills at all ////

i am living off grid in the beautiful Colorado mountains. love the video! good luck to all

I would like to see this source of renewable energy flourishing and prominent in Africa and the middle east where there is abundance of sunlight

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Here in Canada my wife and I have been off grid since August 2014. Our system has matured and is now running a system that allows us to provide all our power needs that includes shop tools and equipment. Our battery bank is configured to 24volt system, there are 64 550amp hr. batteries. These are deep cell golf cart batteries, this was the affordable alternative at the time. There are the new batteries that are cheaper and I recommend them for sure. I would also add that a matching wind generator be added this will help cover many of the cloudy days as when it is quite windy when it is cloudy. I have teamed with a solar/wind electrician that has been involved with this energy service for more than 40years. We encourage general/research questions. We have devoted our time and knowledge to the development of alternative energies. If you are considering this alternative energy production for your home, ask lots of questions, find a reputable solar/wind electrician and invest time in researching your proposed project. Enjoy the freedom of change.

Hi, all I'm seeing this on the 07/03/2020 I'm in England and Nathing here.

3:00 hey look, it's Richard Symonds

Australians have great leadership!?love you!

So this was published in 2016, it's now April 2019 and AGL don't actually have a battery / solar offering yet !!!!!

What's the name of the Co that installed Joshua's Battery system & Do they work in the us?

Excellent report!

You can now get the Tesla power wall 2 battery system in one cabinet with 14.5 kilowatt hours of battery capacity utilizing lithium ion batteries. The utility in Australia are now recommending homeowners install the Tesla power wall 2 and using the batteries to feed the grid when needed as several thousand homes with Tesla batteries can replace a coal fired power plant and only uses a small amount of your battery to keep the grid up and running. This isn't a test, this is proven technology and the utility's are embracing this system. This was posted by me in 4/30/2019

That is the way to go. We are getting notices from PG&E, they are shutting power to some area in the bay and North Bay because of fire hazard. Do your homework and go with system that offers Ac microinverter which is more reliable and of course battery.

Them awkward high fives though 🤣🤣

Zigs using 8- 6vt golf cart batteries $800. 14kw panels, total off grid very happy. Use separate 12oo kw 4 panels for grundfos sq pumps 900ft deep pure well waterx runs straight off panels..

It is exciting to see some of the new technologies coming along, clean energy and having some control over our own power. I hate throwing away money for utilities.

I seen a house with solar panels for the first time this past weekend. Pretty cool

I studied sustainability at Lyndon state college. Professor Miller stated in one hour the sun produces more energy than all the coal, Nuclear,and Natural gas combined. These batteries will help us utilize the sun's energy potential! I loved the video!

Had solar installed 2+ years ago. The payment on the panels and installation was less than the average electric bill. No brainer. AND, after the panels are paid for, free juice from the sun! Not to mention, solar panels make far better roofs than shingles. So long, electric company!

It has been almost 4 years since you launched this video so what happened with the Zinc Bromite battery?

This video is an ad for lithium batteries it seems. Having been an off-gridder for over 20 years I would never purchase lithium batteries. It is not cost effective. Lithium batteries are great for EV’s because of the power density but not for solar off grid power. I have seen many reports of low life lead acid batteries. It may be true that some cheap lead acid batteries are out there, but I have had the opportunity to use quality lead acid AGM batteries for over 20 years, that’s a whopping 7000 + cycles. The initial cost is similar to lithium but is far less expensive over time as the lithium life span is about 600 cycles thus making industrial lead acid very cost effective. Just recently I upgraded my off grid power. I am still using solar panels that are over 20 years old, which are performing at 70% of their rated capacity, and added up-graded newer 24 volt panels. I also upgraded to newer industrial lead acid batteries which could have a live span of 17,000 cycles and with a good desulfator they could easily last 50 years. These batteries are not the little go cart batteries but the industrial fork lift type batteries. These batteries will likely be the last I ever purchase. The performance is superior and walks all over lithium batteries. The trick is to use the lead acid battery at 10% - 20% or less with a desulfator. This is easy to figure by just calculating the night time usage and installing batteries at 10 times that. In my case, to use lights, refrigerator, and electronics etc. during the night and most major power use during the day such as pumps, washer, dryer, electric water heaters and so on. My current set is capable of 42kwh (24 volts X 1800 amps) and is currently running @ 100% capacity. Basically I use about 4kw at night, and don’t even use them at 10%, which can be calculated by battery voltage at morning. For example a single battery cell would have a used voltage of 10% at 2.08 volts. Whereas these batteries store a residual daytime voltage when charged during the day and are at full charge of 2.1 volts by morning when they begin to recharge during the day cycle meaning they have no discharge. These batteries are 4 years old and will easily run for another 25 - 30 years. The only drawback is adding distilled water ocassionally, but that is reduced by using hydrocaps. So don’t be fooled by expensive lithium batteries for solar. It’s not cost effective. PEACE

4:16 high 5's for the battery !!

Nice and sunny there

Ok, it is now March 31, 2019 and this was made over 3 years ago, but it is an excellent overview of the future and uses of battery storage. At first, though, the title is confusing and I thought I was watching a plug for buying batteries for home solar installations without clear cost analysis. There was no cost analysis, but the topic was future battery tech, not cost analysis, and I learned a lot about improvements coming in battery tech. I am in Florida, USA and we are just seeing a solar explosion here because up until about a year ago, you could only buy solar from the big power utilities. But the State changed the rules so now we are being inundated by all sorts of scams, "no money down", etc. This was good reporting without being a tout for solar.

Very informative...

The first thing you can do is try to use more power during the day time. Washing machines, dishwashers, water heating. Storage heaters, charging electric vehicles and any other smaller batteries. Another great idea is to try to get some hot water panels to try to use some power directly from the sun without having to convert it too many times.

Awsome video! The only issue is the high cost of the battery!

I live in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, and solar power is rare... you'd think that a desert town, with 300 days of uninterrupted sunlight, would be farming this unlimited natural resource!

Is there an update on this video for year 2020? i.e., the status of projects, costs, usage of batteries, etc.

We had solar panels installed a little more than a month ago. I wish we had done it sooner. I love to login to solar edge and see how many kWh we have earned. We are not off the grid but hope to earn enough to cover about 90% of our electric bill each year.

Sounds wonderful. I am waiting for my batteries. I just wonder what impact battery production and recycling will have on the environment...

I have been encouraging people to go battery besides solar . the idea being that inverters are safer for your electronics than the grid. Electric companies are not responsible for damages to your electronics . People that live in third world countries get power irregularly . By going battery it eliminates problems.

Great insight into the build just subscribed and it’s a nice compact turbine I also have built a homemade 650 watts wind turbine, a treadmill motor turbine and a little but powerful ametek 30v turbine and built 2 diy solar panels, be careful in high winds one of my first turbines blew up 😕and now have only 2 wonderful turbines working daily 😊it’s very satisfying watching those things working, keep up the good work buddy 👍

Great video

I have a 5.5kw solar system and a powerwall 2 and it covers 98% of my energy needs. if i have 2-3 days of overcast weather i need to tap into the grid. But otherwise i am running my home on sunshine.

What about battery chemistries that are cheaper / more stable / longer lasting than lithium? Salt water batteries for homes / buildings, or liquid metal for grid storage, are some that seem to have a place. Mobile devices need light weight and compact batteries; but a building battery can be heavier and / or bulkier.

Australia has a shortage of water, if every house had a water tank to catch rain water it would reduce the water shortage.

Just build your own, not hard to do and doing the build yourself is very rewarding.

I love this , it's really exciting to see this happening and the advantages are massive over coal and other fossil fuels and that includes nuclear , but it even gets better there are even better solar panels and batteries around the corner . there is a new material called graphene that is going to take renewable green energy to whole new level and you know what i don't understand is why we are taking valuable agrarian land for these large solar farms when there's way more rooftops and bridges road side fences in our cities than we would ever need . and that is where the power is needed most and it would also cut down on the massive cost of infrastructure of getting the power where it is needed and when the powers at be finally wake up and start working for the people instead of these multinationals and we the people get the E V revaluation that is happening in China and else wear at the moment that will be the final peace of the puzzle for a much brighter future for the whole of man kind...

Thanks inspiring video

03:30 It looks like there are some cable lugs missing in the inverter cabinet and the installer / producer used the wrong screwdriver.

Is that an exotic marsupial on Josh's head?

I believe by using Insulated Concrete Forms for the exterior walls of a home and Solar roof, you can operate your home and charge your car at the same time .

@4:32 Jemma like "Oh, YOU'VE done it, have you?"

Combining wind and solar is the way to go.

I advocate installing minimum of double the PV you think you need. If you are going to cut corners do it on the storage side, use lead acid if it is cheaper over its life cycle. The reason I say this is that you may very well have a plug in hybrid sitting in the driveway soon and that will take a large amount of electricity that the grid is not designed to handle.

Nice job. Might have been an idea to allow cooling air to duct around the cells?

Amasing solar energy

Medicine Hat in South East Alberta is known to be the sunniest place in North America. It is also famous for Rudyard Kipling's open letter to the world, after visiting here in 1907, suggesting that a place having All Hell For A Basement, with Medicine Hat being its door that it truly did not deserve a new name!

Very.informative

Will probably work great there...but living in Nebraska we don't get full sun all the time...

Excellent

There are a couple of new kids on the block, both of which can be charged to 100% and used to 0% charge with no deregulation of their capacity over the years. The liquid metal battery is probably not an option for a household due to it's high temperature although it should be great for large scale businesses. The other is the Zinc Bromide flow battery that is actually developed and on the market in Australia. An added advantage of the latter is that is that the battery itself contains a signal generator such that you can use the power when the grid goes down. The battery acts like the grid. In the older more usual solar cell / battery systems, when the grid went down you didn't have power.

Amazing Video.....India Should Implement This Technology As Soon As Possible.

I am in Accra Ghana how do l get this solar battery to buy for my house ... ?

Maybe it can be used with other off grid energy or have multiples as a backup.

Just great and I must to have!

Good. Very interest.

our local power companys ..should expand service to an department that installs solar on your homes ..get into the future ..being a solar company we can trust and maybe make payments too

Likes from Brasil 🇧🇷

Ok bingo .good luck.all of the team .you are amazing.and love your job ,and be feel smile and funny in your life

What is the brand of the solar battery seen at 3:10

Love to see small towns (say less than 500 citizens) have a series of batteries installed at their local council offices/depot for all its town people to get their power from...of course it would need the support of all that town's ratepayers....that would stuff up the greedy energy companies.

For excess power: Start installing big fans around your power plants and grid systems. The moment you have excess power, the fans switch on and cool down area temperature.

JOSH-That wig looks RIDICULOUS!

There is a Texas utility company that has so much solar and wind energy that from midnight to 6 AM it's free! Cheers!

what is average consumption per home in Au?

The beginning of the video, where they discuss selling power to the power company, is not a typical example. Whereas those skewed prices might be true in Australia, here in California the state law mandates that the power company must buy power from us at the full, retail rate. The rates in your own state may vary, so check into it.

Try researching nickel iron batterys. They last for 50 years and can be discharged to zero without damage, therefore needing only half as many.

What's the full cost of the setup? Battery lifespan?how long to make your money back? How good is it in a colder environment?

interesting show.

In November 2018, the cost of a Tesla Powerwall 2 and Gateway in Australia was $12,350 before installation costs. Does anyone have an example calculation for how long the payback period is?

There's no more advancements on these subjects. I'll wait for awhile hopefully ABC SCIENCE will have much more videos on these topics. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I dig this gel battery tech. I want to get ahold of it and use it in various vehicle types!

What is that company that had that smart software with that battery system. Like to to more research on them

How much is that battery Translate cost to 5 years used and replacement cost afterwards

How much does it cost for the battery systems? Under $10,000. So can I get one of these systems in the United States?

Why not Nickel Iron batteries. They last more than 50 to 100yrs, are eco friendly and can be fully discharged without damage. Downside is they are very very heavy and little expensive for now, but much less than a Tesla wall. But hey that last upto 100yrs with minimal maintenance (every 2-3 years a simple catalyst top up).

Hi, i have question - i have hybrid solar wind system. 300w solar and 400w wind. I just notice that my monitoring system (live) showing incredibly down production when wind turbine is spinning. When sun shining but turbine does not turn, i get around 200-280w production, but soon wind turbine starts spinning, - the production drops - i get around 120 - 170w the faste turbine spinning the bigger amount of w is drops. Its looks like wind turbine does not produce any electricity, instead when its turning looks like its pulls energy back to it self? or what is happening? Any advice, please?

05:02 look at that stach!!!

Today we have the technology to run our home totally off grid. The problem is most homes are not up to 21st century standard's of efficiency, meaning they can't keep out the heat and cold from penetrating the wall's and windows100%. Our appliances need to be redesigned to operate at lower voltages. We also need to convert every lighting system to leds which operate at much lower voltages. It would be nice to free ourselves from the power companies. 😁

The question is what will be the impact and changes this will bring to our homes, lives and in our environment?

the problem is that in australia the energy suppliers charge consumers not only on their actual use but also for being connected to the grid (daily supply charge). So even if I don't use grid much I still have to pay these fees if I want to be connected to the grid to back up my solar energy system. rooftop solar systems become more and more popular but it doesn't stop the suppliers to charge more and more as a supply charge so having solar becomes pointless for consumers.

Like to see some more

Lithium cobalt is NOT the latest battery standard , LiFePO4 is.

Wait, what is the cost now, and did it cost this person more or less and what was the payback period?? What is the life expectancy of these batteries. What is the environmental impact of the battery and the end of life of the battery? What is the estimate of the life cycle of these batteries and replacement cost?

I have researched battery backup to my 14 KW solar system, the Tesla system to accommodate my solar was 25K as per March 2020. I was told that even with the smart gateway and 10KW battery, if mains power failed my batteries switched off and so with the solar. This would leave our home with no power.

great!

uploaded in 2016 but thought I saw a "Tesla Cybertruck @ 19:42...

i really wish i could get more involved with things like that. I have observed so much and figured out tiny things on my own, but without access to materials or info. I can't understand it well enough to try to help make a change.

Australia looks like it has a bright future. Should be interesting to see how clean renewable energy use progresses in the next 25 to 30 years. After that, I will probably be dead since I am 61 years old right now

I think we can eventually get to the point where neuclear plants, and hydro and wind turbines can generate what is needed other than the solar at ppls homes, if most ppl can have double the required solar panels , exporting the power not used to the grid, making up for the coal and gas power plants, and use battery backup to buffer the nuk plants, allowing time to adjust to demand! Or possibly a battery ultra capacitor hybrid, to supply power for the 10-30 minutes needed to compensate, and possibly using pumped storage for longer demands! The grid total us very complex, it needs to be broken down in more manageable parcels, while still being a connected grid, where the parts of the grid can help eachother, we will figure it out, the goal is to stop the carbon, we must keep that in mind over profiting,

Will anyone have any idea for how long the system last, and how often, how much cost for maintenance.

Where Sir did you purchase your energy power system in Australia?

Renewable energy is definitely the way to go. But if the paradigm shift really happens in a large scale, what can happen to big utility companies is still largely unknown.

Batteries are unique in that they don’t put out energy like hydro or nuclear; they instead make energy available for use as needed. A power plant puts out power and if it’s not used it is wasted, while a battery stores potential energy that is only used on demand.

gues what I am writing this from 2020 prices have not dropped that much

Good report on solar energy.... I'm torn between solar and hydrogen energy, the cleanest of all renewable/green energy.

What battery brand was used and where can I get one?

now 2020 wat is the status..any update?