Krzysztof Lis

Urban

My name is Krzysztof Lis, I live in Poland, and since 2005 I am interested in off-grid living. My off-grid journey started in 2006 when I bought my volkswagen T3 (vanagon) camper (RV) and equipped it with small flexible solar panel and solar charge controller.

Since January 2009 I am running a blog about off-grid living. Last month I was invited by Nick Rosen to write my articles here instead of running my own blog, and that’s how I ended up writing this. :)

During the following weeks I will be moving all my old articles to be published here, and when those articles are all moved, I will start posting new ones.…

June 1, 2010 6 Comments

Off-grid electricity: produce, save and store

Off-grid energy supply is a task that has to be analyzed on three levels:

producing the energy from any off-grid source, preferably renewable
reducing energy use,
storing it for future when supply exceeds demand.

True off-grid life means using only free renewable (sometimes referred to as alternative) energy sources. But solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines supply you with power only when the solar/wind power is available. There are only two ways to simple deal with this problem. But neither of them is a good one.…

May 14, 2010 7 Comments