I'm trying to think of the second order effects of solar and battery storage if it becomes cheap enough to run your entire house without the grid. Wouldn't it make sense to design houses with DC power from the ground up? Why go through the inefficient inverter if you are generating DC from a solar panel and using DC power internally in all of your appliances? Assuming $3-5 per watt fully installed and a 6 kWh solar p…
I don’t understand the draw of your house being “off the grid”. It’s a house. Do you want to be off the water, sewer, gas, garbage, postal, newspaper, legal, and firefighting grids too, or just specifically the electrical grid? And your neighbors too or just you?
Also in developing countries where there isn't a reliable power grid, would you just skip that step entirely? I know some places in Nepal where they have daily rolling blackouts and it is extremely annoying.