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As far as I know here in California you can't get a building finaled unless there is an electrical hookup, in Texas if a home is built "off the grid" is a utility hookup required to final the building?
There is no requirement to "connect" to a service provider. However, within our city, we do require the electrical to be connected at the final in order to test the system. After that................
If there aren't any inspections "off the grid" then no service is required.
So theoretically a guy could wire a home to code, hook up soar panels and/or a windmill and pass final? Even though you know there will be no power at night when the wind isn't blowing?
I think that storage batteries ' would ' provide some power from a stored source, in the evenings, ...just not from the traditional source known as "The Grid!"
i've done several finals with permanent homes off the grid. gas stoves, refers, water heaters, lights, gravity flow waters systems etc. pelton wheels ,solar , storage battery etc... you don,t need the grid to get a final where i live. you don't need energy calcs if you are using a nondepletable source of energy! guess that would not apply in ca's part of calif?