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Leonard bought the property in 1987 beforehaving a family. He made a decision not to getelectricity from the grid during initialconstruction. He was able to run many smallpower tools for construction using an initialset of four solar photovoltaic panels, aninverter to convert the DC current to AC , anda small set of batteries to store excess power.The SunFrost refrigerator was ordered early onas the only means of significantly reducing theload typically required by a fridge. It wastouted to be the most efficient in the world atthe time. Since Leonard was the only oneliving in the house he was able to limit his useto 400 watts of solar power generation.Everything worked well. The garage was addedand since it faced south he put an additional300 watts of solar panels on th e roof. Thesecurity systems business Leonard ran movedtowards more and more solar poweredsystems and in fact has turned into primarily arenewable energy systems provider today. Theoriginal system was fine for about five years.The battery storage system has been expandedseveral times in order to allow the home tooperate for longer periods of time without asmuch sunlight. This is especially importantduring the winter.The original 900 watt solar system, includingthe original battery system was then sold. Thatold system is still operating well for the peoplethat Leonard sold the system to. He had notrouble selling the system as demand for solaris high. The battery system was expanded tothree times the original size and is now able tostore 50-60 Kilowatt -hours of electricity. Thisis enough to supply the home for the darker171