{"id":7087,"date":"2016-08-26T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T11:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2016-08-26T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T11:51:11","slug":"aussie-town-planning-go-off-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7087","title":{"rendered":"Aussie town planning to go off grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1024px-Tyalgum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7094 size-medium\" title=\"By Elysium.Elysees - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=856792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1024px-Tyalgum-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1024px-Tyalgum\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1024px-Tyalgum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1024px-Tyalgum.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The small town of Tyalgum is planning to go off grid.\u00a0 Tyalgum is planning to get 100% of its energy from renewable sources and then unplug from the grid.\u00a0 There are number of reasons why the towns&#8217; (villages&#8217;?) inhabitants want to go off grid.\u00a0 They pay a lot for their electricity and don&#8217;t feel they get much for this.\u00a0 Tyalgum is at the end of the wires and the townspeople feel they pay a lot for maintaining these wires. \u00a0 There is a high degree of environmental awareness and being at the end of the grid would lead to minimal disruption if they did go off grid.\u00a0 There is also a very good renewable resource, mainly solar?<\/p>\n<p>Its still a brave move to to actually unplug though and not a move I would personally recommend.\u00a0 There does seem to be intense interest in this particularly in Oz with some suggesting a <a href=\"http:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/2013\/what-if-one-third-of-australians-chose-to-go-off-grid-85095\" target=\"_blank\">third of people might disconnect<\/a> from the grid.\u00a0 Of course the reason is the falling cost of energy storage (batteries).\u00a0 If I was in this situation I would go 100% renewable and stay on the grid.\u00a0 Apart from anything else there will be many times when you generate more power than you can use and this could be sold back to the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small town of Tyalgum is planning to go off grid.\u00a0 Tyalgum is planning to get 100% of its energy from renewable sources and then unplug from the grid.\u00a0 There are number of reasons why the towns&#8217; (villages&#8217;?) inhabitants want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-energy","category-renewables","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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