peak load shaving [RE-wrenches]

[Jeff Irish]

Davis,

There's a company in New York that makes a packaged product designed to do
this that I believe accepts PV input and is based on a standard PV inverter.
Their name is Gaia I think.  Try googling them.  It might be an option.

Jeff Irish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davis Terrell [mailto:cvsolar3 at sover.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:10 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: peak load shaving [RE-wrenches]
> 
> 
> 
> Wrenches,
> 
> 
> 
> We have a potential commercial customer looking for a peak load shaving in
> a
> grid-tie with backup system.  This business is a restaurant at a ski
> mountain so normally a good sized pv array would suffice to cut down loads
> in the summer but this restaurants big loads are in December through
> February evenings when sun is in hot demand here in Vermont.  So basically
> the system would sell down the batteries when the load hits a certain
> level.
> The only inverter that I have seen with published documentation to do this
> is the SW.  Any one have any experience with a system like this or know of
> another inverter with a better grid tie efficiency?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Davis Terrell
> 
> Central Vermont Solar & Wind
> 
> (802) 747-0577 / www.cvsolar.com
> 
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