Off-grid Power: Solar, Batteries & Enough

Fairytale Cob House · Abeloer, United Kingdom

A weekend sizing and wiring a small solar system: panels, batteries, and the honest math of living well within what the sun gives you.

Size a solar array and battery bank to real needsWire panels, charge controller, and inverter safelyPlan a home around the power you actually have

What you'll learn

Size an off-grid solar system from your loads
Wire and maintain a small system safely
Live comfortably within an energy budget

What the land gains

The holding's workshop put on solar power
An honest energy plan for the off-grid site

The host site

Fairytale Cob House

An off-grid cob hideaway in a Scottish forest garden

A hand-built cob cottage with curved walls sits at the heart of a young forest garden on a small Scottish holding. The land is slowly being shaped into a productive, biodiverse haven, and there's always something to build, plant, or mend.

Your teacher

Jonas Berg

Timber framer & tiny-home builder

4.9 · 47 reviews · 9 yrs teaching