MiSo, a solar house that has been an exhibit at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor for the past 10 years, is now going to serve as an off-grid house. The aluminum house, designed and built by UM students and displayed on the Washington Mall for the 2005 Solar Decathalon, was purchased by Lisa and Matt Gunneson, a Grand Rapids couple who plan to move it to land they own near Evart. Outfitted with solar panels on its half-round roof and with a battery storage system inside, the 660 sq.ft. one-bedroom house is capable of operating without any external power sources.
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