{"id":21494,"date":"2020-10-26T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/?p=21494"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:35:17","slug":"new-video-off-grid-lithium-byd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/26\/new-video-off-grid-lithium-byd\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video: Off-Grid Lithium BYD"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new video on our channel which follows system designers Off Grid Engineering<\/em><\/a> as they install a 6kW PV ‘Glass Roof’ with 15.36 kWh Lithium storage – and explain their choices.<\/p>\n

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Grid Power lines couldn’t be closer – but grid connection has not been chosen<\/p><\/div>\n

Interestingly, the overhead power cables of the local electricity grid pass directly over the building site of this new build house, yet the owner – Jim Watt – decided not to connect to the power grid, but to supply his new build house in a Shropshire village, UK, with off-grid electricity.<\/p>\n

Close proximity of a power cable doesn’t always mean that connection to the grid will be straightforward or inexpensive. Often in rural locations in the UK there is insufficient capacity to add a new connection to the existing infrastructure – or the transformer is distant and so a cable has to cross someone else’s land, requiring permission, legal agreement and ‘easement’ payments. Cost of connection can escalate to a six-figure sum.<\/p>\n

When the quotation for connecting to the national electricity grid takes your breath away it makes it easier to decide to do what you wanted to do all along – go Off-Grid!<\/p>\n

Cosmetically Stylish PV roof panels; super-reliable power inverters and chargers; and increasingly durable battery storage technology take all the worry out of that commitment.<\/p>\n

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Loft installation<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim plans to use efficient electric domestic appliances – but makes no concessions to the fact he is off-grid: For cooking he uses an Induction Hob; he has an efficient fridge freezer which runs 365 days a year; and his domestic heating is from an Air Source Heat Pump – for every 1kW of electricity it consumes it provides 5kW of heat. Oh, and he has a Hot Tub.<\/p>\n

Jim’s installation comprises:<\/p>\n