I do not like to use electricity to light up outdoors. However I do not like darkness outdoors either. I do not have the lights on outdoors and my neighbour has complained about that. However they do not pay my electric bills, so they cannot force me. I have enough lighting outdoors, solar cell lights. I have actually bought new lights with solar cells. They do not light up all night, since the power cells do not last that long, so it becomes dark after some hours. I think that the solar cells are nice, they light up the way home, so we may find our house in the darkness. Today you can actually get solar cell lamps for 10 SEK per piece. I wonder who has suffered for that price? I do not know. At least my solar cells only consumed energy when being produced, now they are recharged every day in the sun and light up the evening after sun down.
I could have installed electrical lighting and kept it on, but it doesn’t seem right. Nobody is outdoors, so why should I? It is just a waste of energy, a strain on the environment. Everyone could have solar cell driven lighting. On all roofs there could be panels. However when I was investigating such an investment it seemed like solar cells only where for heating houses. I want it to power my fridge and refrigerator, all the “stand by”-elements inside the house so to speak. This way I would be outside the grid for power. When I am offered such a technology I will take it. It will have to be able to store and make me off the grid, so that I have enough power for my house appliances. Have you thought about your own energy-consuming way of life? Starting to think is at least one step forward. Then the action might be to choose a vendor for green energy as a first step. That step I already took a while ago.