Living Off-Grid, Really?!

Reader Contribution by Aur Beck and Advanced Energy Solutions Group
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My name is Aur “DaEnergyMon” Beck, and I have lived off-grid with solar electricity as my source of power for 18 years. Growing up, I had unique parents that decided to live off-grid in a low-tech way and we moved to what I’m told it is the poorest County in Tennessee to set up a homestead.

I grew up with wood as a cooking source and heat, candles and kerosene lamps for light. We grew our own vegetables and we had chickens and goats for dairy. It was a very simple life. We didn’t shun society in any way; we just picked and chose what parts of society we wanted to have inundate our lives. 

My dad decided that instead of working his whole life and saving up enough money to retire, he would retire while he was young and able. Basically my dad decided that instead of saving up enough money to travel he would live in vacation mode. He just simplified his life and somehow he convinced my mom to do the same.

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