OFFTHEGRID

Off-the-grid

The term off-grid refers to not being connected to a grid, mainly used in terms of not being connected to the main or national electrical grid. In electricity, off-grid can be stand-alone systems or mini-grids typically to provide a smaller community with electricity. Off-grid electrification is an approach to access electricity used in countries and areas with little access to electricity, due to scattered or distant population. It can be any kind of electricity generation. The term off-the-grid can refer to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more public utilities.

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off the grid

Adjective

  1. Not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
  2. Not connected to a publicly available communication system, such as the world-wide web or a mobile telephone network.
  3. Isolated; in a remote location; in seclusion; not participating in some official process or system.

Adverb

  1. In or into a situation or place in which electricity from the public electricity system is not used.
  2. In or into a clandestine or isolated situation or place, especially one in which public communication is curtailed.
  3. Secretly; in a clandestine manner.
    “You have to have an awful lot of energy and passion to make films with no funding and no prospect of having them seen in public in your home country except under the radar and off the grid,” said Sally Berger, the curator of the festival, who visited China last fall.


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