Electricity needs when the grids down.

[Pete Grey]

Our supply company would only change our tariff to the lowest one if we agreed to a smart meter so we had little choice.

If we were twenty years younger (in our fifties, not late seventies) we would now be off-grid with a full solar system with all the trimmings.

Our electricity bill is around £600-£700 a year and a system would pay for itself at least twice over twenty years, the life of the panels, even if the batteries would need replacing during this time.

At the present our current electricity preps are still as the first post of this
thread, but I will probably get another folding 100w panel and a better marine or deep discharge battery.

By the way as the smart meters are all made in China there is a good chance they could be hacked and switched off remotely at the whim of Xi Jinping...................Oh Sh#t.