Best option solar or pole (Newbie question)

Skyfarm

hi all
I'm looking to get electricity on a piece of land to sustain us during winter,will be living in a caravan for a few months and then build,

We priced a pole connection at 1600 euro, or a jenny for 6/700 euro

i would much prefer to go solar from get go,and install a system that could bring heating and light to said caravan


Any ideas? feel free to throw questions
I'm starting off but want to be the best to the environment

Evd-Burner

Solar for heating and electricotta in winter?

That will be hard. Have you looked into wind?

gctest50

Go for a pole connection - you need reliability to run fridge / freezer

quentingargan

I'd prefer to go for grid. I would expect that there will be a facility to export surplus power and get paid for it. When you take the cost of batteries and their life expectancy into account, exporting and importing to and from the grid makes more sense - provided you get paid for your exports.

However, if you are not relying on heat, then the standing charges from ESB for using a tiny amount of electricity for lights and fridge might push you in the direction of off-grid and batteries.

You need to start off with an honest assessment of your power consumption.