As I understand you can’t be forced to connect to electricity or gas as anyone with a vacant house can attest to. Oddly, if water is available you’ll get a bill of sorts from you water provider even if it’s a vacant block with no connection to water, sewage or storm water (and they claim it’s because you have the ability to connect if you want)…
The problem is that the suppliers of PV solar and battery systems will recommend that you remain grid connected and discourage off grid thinking. May be there are some kick backs from power providers?
Added to that is the certification and approval process for off grid systems in city areas is much more burdensome from a bureaucratic process than a connected PV system. Such burdens just seems to adds unnecessary cost and frustration.
Last year I enquired about off grid solar and I got nothing but resistance and told that its expensive, bureaucratic and difficult in capital cities… A few years before that time I was told it’s illegal to go off grid in suburbia… May be it’s old info I’ve based my comments on and things have changed.
Interestingly the following mob (local to you) seem to do such off grid systems
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May be it’s time to revisit the whole off grid solar..