RE: Renewable energy - An investment in my future: My solar-array figures update
That's great! Yesterday we were watching this documentary on Netflix about ( I believe it was ) Denmark where the people living there took matters into their own hands and collectively bought these wind collectors to have their own power. This went well, and more of these were bought, some were owned by a collective of the people living there, others were owned by one family.
It was absolutely amazing and inspiring to see how these people took matters into their own hands and now there even are a bunch of electric cars bought by the people on the island, which are used by the nurses there I think. They are making a huge effort to keep their environment as clean as possible, and it's seriously inspiring!
I honestly can't wait until we decide where we will stay long-term, and have our own property (hopefully haha) to install solar panels to start with. But also grow some of our own veggies and fruit.. But at this time, we rent an apartment in the city centre of Budapest, so we will have to pay for the energy haha :)
Lovely to see some of these results from someone first hand though!
I think having an awareness of our power usage has been the best part. Having solar panels doesn't mean we can use more power, it means we needed to adjust our usage patterns, which we did. Gets the best out of the system..
Good to see collective efforts around the place like you mention. We're going to Denmark next year so think, have heard it's a pretty cool place.
I'll be honest, we did it more for the monetary saving than the environment but there's a dual benefit there I guess. We grow some vegetables, not much, and try and live a waste-free life...I think it's important to do and is also rewarding. Hopefully you get your chance to do so as well. We are glad we got the solar system.