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What Next TBD: The Cost of Going Off-Grid

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Going off-grid can seem appealing in lots of ways. But are there consequences if everyone unplugs from the system? Are there costs we haven’t considered? Guest: Ivan Penn, renewable energy correspondent for the New York Times Host: Seth Stevenson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When you think of someone going off-grid, living in a house that's entirely self-sufficient,

0:39.4

with no connection to the utility companies most of us count on to power all our stuff,

0:44.1

you maybe picture some sort of doomsday prepper in a unabomber shed out there in the wilderness.

0:49.4

But Ivan Penn says that's not the reality.

0:52.7

Sure, there are those who are, you know, living in the

0:56.6

tiny homes, rustic cabins, but what really surprised me was there are people in just

1:05.6

really modern middle class homes. And in some cases, very large estates, some with hot tubs,

1:15.0

swimming pools, and they were operating entirely without any connection to the electric grid.

1:25.6

Ivan is the Renewable Energy Correspondent for the New York Times, and he recently reported

1:30.4

on people who'd chosen to go off-grid, setting up solar panels and battery systems so they

1:35.9

can disconnect their homes from the utility company's power lines.

1:39.2

What he found was that they weren't necessarily tree-hugging hippies. But they weren't necessarily survival preparedness types

1:46.3

who are obsessed with self-reliance either.

1:48.8

These were your typical everyday people

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