How to legally inexpensively cheat the jewtilities companies with non-grid tied solar panels. Winter time : Lean some cheap inexpensive used solar panels against the side of your house and run the wire inside your house. Do not connect to any plugs or any utilities. Connect the end of The wire to a diesel engine glow plug and put that glow plug in a 55 gallon drum full of water inside some room in your house. Let the juice from the solar panel heat the glow plug which will heat the water all day while the Sun is out. That will reduce your heating bill during the day and when the Sun goes down the hot water will continue to release heat into your home reducing your heating bill at night. Or you can buy a cheap car inverter and run a small electric heater directly off the car inverter hooked directly to your solar panels and that will work all day long while the sun is out reducing your heating bill during the day. Obviously it won't help you at night but it will reduce your heating bill more during the day so it might balance out. Summertime During the summer you can either buy an inverter and run a window air conditioner directly from the solar panels all day long which is when it's usually the hottest anyway this will directly reduce your air conditioning Bill during the day. Obviously it won't do anything at night because of solar panels won't work at night but it's cooler at night anyway. Alternatively you can buy a small tabletop ice maker and run the ice maker all day long from a small inverter hook directly to the solar panels and have the ice go into a cooler and then run a small fan to blow over that ice during the night time to continue to cool at night. You can also buy peltier chips which are pretty cheap and will directly cool things like a tub full of water from the solar panels using the DC current without any inverter and that cool water will also absorb heat during the night time. I don't have much experience with those but you can figure that out. It's important to know that if you're running the small ice maker or even the peltier chips that the exhaust from the ice maker and the heated side of the peltier chips must go outside and not inside your house otherwise the net cooling is zero. The cool ice must go inside your house and the exhaust from the small ice maker must go outside your house so you might want to put the ice maker in a window with a little hole or something in it. Obviously the key here is you do not hook the solar panels up to the house wiring at all and you don't hook it up to the grid. You directly use the energy from the solar panels to do things when the solar panels are working during the day. This will directly reduce your heating and cooling bill that you have to pay the jewtilities for. This will be a direct after tax savings meaning you will never be paying taxes on the money you don't spend on your utilities. You can buy very inexpensive used solar panels on eBay and have them shipped to your house. You can buy thousands of Watts very cheaply from old solar farms that are recycling old panels and using new panels now. You don't need sophisticated mounting systems for the solar panels. You could literally just tie them with ropes to heavy cinder blocks to keep them from blowing away if you lay them on the ground. You can run a small 5000 BTU window air conditioner with about 5 or 600 watts of solar panel and a 5000 BTU window air conditioner will contribute substantially to cooling your house. It might cut your energy use by a quarter or a half or an eighth depending on how big your house is. Whatever it is it's directly cutting the need for your main central air and heat to cut on and off. If you have central air conditioning and your stock cooling your whole house when you only really need to cool your office during the summer then that window air conditioner can substantially cut your monthly utility bill. Monthly utility bills can easily run two to four to six hundred dollars for air conditioning and a brand new 5000 BTU window air conditioner is only $159 at Home Depot right now and they'll probably be cheaper as summer ends. Small room heaters are even cheaper and cutting your electric heating bill if you're unfortunate enough to have electric central heating will really make a difference if you can run a small room heater where you actually are going to be. If you do any of this make sure the wires that you use are big enough to carry the current. Don't use cheap extension cords. Remember you're not going to have fuses on any of this stuff so if a wire gets hot and short circuits is going to be nothing to turn the solar panels off. If you go to a truck drive or store that has devices like mini fridges and heaters that run directly off 12 volts that are meant to be used in trucks the whole process is even easier because then you don't need an inverter. They have fans small air conditioners coolers small heating elements and all kinds of things made to run directly off of 12 volts inside a truck.