Hello Rob!

** On Friday 19.08.22 - 01:16, you wrote to MARK HOFMANN:

 RM> If you build from scratch to be off the grid it's not so
 RM> bad if you make certain allowances. A friend of mine built
 RM> a big ($1 million?) cottage on a lake with no road access.
 RM> He was told by the power company that it would cost him
 RM> $100,000 to have a line run to his place, even though he
 RM> was within 500 feet of power lines on the ground, but they
 RM> insisted on feeding him power under water instead of
 RM> burying lines or putting in a couple of poles..

Maybe there were too many rocks or other trees enroute  
overland?

Underwater feeds are common to cottagers on many lakes.


 RM> It was more the principle of the thing than that he
 RM> couldn't afford it but he decided to tell them to stuff it
 RM> stay off of the grid instead.

I'd probably be as stoic myself.


 RM> He has some solar cells and he should have a wind
 RM> generator up by now and he's doing pretty well. Lighting
 RM> is by combination gas and 12v electric, lots of LED stuff,
 RM> and the fridge and stove, are propane rather than
 RM> electric. He has a bank of 20 acid batteries which cost
 RM> him about $2000 to store some power and a small gas
 RM> powered generator when he really needs 'normal' power for
 RM> things, but I was there a whole weekend and the only time
 RM> the generator was used was when his wife vacuumed the
 RM> place. His water system is gravity feed from a large
 RM> storage tank on a hill behind the cottage which is filled
 RM> from the lake using a gasoline powered water pump a couple
 RM> of times a day. Heating is mostly burning wood but there's
 RM> also some propane heat. It's primarily a summer place so
 RM> heating is less of an issue, although they have stayed
 RM> weekends there in winter as well.

Sounds very typical of what I hear people settle with.  Myself,  
I have a little property in Muskoka surrounded by crownland on  
three sides. The only "road" access is a trail that leads to my  
neighbor's property.  Another route route my be across  
crownland and a creek. There are a couple of nice high spots on  
the property to establish a cottage/bunkie/yurt.  It would be  
nice to have SOME power for some simple things like a water  
pump and a phone charger.
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