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Going completely off grid costs a fair bit of cash. From a solar array or wind gen or both, to expensive batteries, to the electronics.

I have a storage building that cannot be serviced by the grid, since it is intended only to store equipment and is zoned that way. But I checked before I bought it - solar is not against the rules. So I have three 250W panels, charge controller, a 12V LiFePO4 pack and a 3000W modified sine wave inverter. It runs 12V lights, or 120V LED lights (kinda wastefully), and it'll run a tablesaw, a compressor, and charge my USB stuff while I'm working there.

And it STILL cost me almost $1000 out of pocket. I bought the panels, charge controllers and inverter. I used a re-purposed LiFePO4 battery pack, and most of the rest of the stuff I had already and recycled or upcycled.