Dedicated pole transformers for grid tie [RE-wrenches]

[William Korthof]

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A dedicated transformer for each home with a grid-tie solar installation???

HA HAHH!!! That's a really good one!

If anything, in most cases, perhaps the utility should consider
*downsizing* the distribution transformer capacity or aggregating
more loads together from the same distribution transformers.

/wk

At 09:51 AM 1/6/2004, joeldavidson at earthlink.net wrote:
>Utilities sometimes have to upgrade the transformer when distributed
>generation is added to the circuit because they consider DG as an added
>load. Transformer upgrades are often done at the customer's expense. What
>kind and how many kW is the grid tie?
>
>Original Message:

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