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Residents in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties power their homes and businesses with energy from the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. Each of those utilities offer their customers a variety of energy-saving initiatives, in addition to online resources from energy-saving tips to home-energy audits. Those offerings are in …
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As some folks point out, it is not sunny all the time. So you’ll need to store some of the solar energy you getanere during those sunny days. There are two ways to do this. First, you can install battery banks in your basement. You’ll need to buy a lot of batteries, so that if you get several days of overcast weather, you still have electricity. You get to be completely separate from the electric utility, but you need to purchase and maintain and periodically replace a whole bunch of batteries.Second, in some places, you can effectively “spin the meter backwards.” While this doesn’t actually store the electricity, the electric company will, in some places, credit you for any extra electricity that you produce, allowing you to use it at night and during cloudy days. You’ll not need to mess with the batteries, but you’ll still be connected to the utility. For more info on this, you should do a search on “net metering.”Unless you are very very committed to being off-grid, it is challenging (and expensive) to completely severe yourself from the electric company.