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The finca where Gaby lives and farms is about ten to twenty minutes out of town,or about forty minutes from Puerto Plata international airport. The finca house iscompletely off-the-grid as are a number of other solar power systems used forlighting and small pumps throughout the farm. Given the chance, when she boughtthe property, Gaby declined to invest in the new hydro electricity connections thather neighbors did. Instead, she favored the independence of a completely self -sustained, off-the-grid, setup. She has no regrets given the frequent power outageson the grid in Dominican Republic and problems with people connecting illegally tothe hydro wires.The two primary energy generation systems for the home she has expandedextensively, include aWhisper 1440 windturbine and a mixture aseveral brands of photovoltaic solar panels thatyou can see on the roof.The house system s areall connected to asimple controller thatlets her know howmuch power she hasgenerated on a digitalreadout in the mediaroom. A set of eightbatteries store theenergy generated duringthe day. A smallPortaWatt 1750 inverterconverts the DCcurrent generated bythe photo voltaic solarpanels and wind turbineinto AC so that herlights, appliances,television, stereo andcomputer have powerwhenever she needs it.198