Decentralized green energy

[DustyJoe]

2. Crossing fingers

Just finished the foundation and had the floor poured yesterday as framing gets started today on what I hope to be my green home.
Will have solar hot water heat and solar heated concrete slab along with a water reclaimation system. My PV is still a small system that I will increase as I can afford it, I hope to get to at least a 2 to 3KW PV going as I add to the 1/2 KW with 1,000 AH battery solar generator system I have at my current place. The solar added about 12% to the homes total construction costs which included massive insulation addition to keep the home at a constant temperature along with a fire protection system. . At just over 6,000 feet and 25 miles from the foothills of the southern colorado rockies the winters range from mild to bone chilling 10-20 below, but plenty of sun for the solar systems.

Only real gripe is the fallback systems needed in case of prolonged cloudy/inadequate solar availability. It rankles me to have backup water heat and HVAC, but hopefully these electric sucking fallbacks are rarely if ever needed and can eventually be solar PV instead of grid powered.