[RE-wrenches] Gross PV production meter options

[toddcory at finestplanet.com]

treat this as you would treat metering a standard non battery system. the KV2 meters are for combining the local consumption with the selling to the grid. a standard, single direction counting kWh meter in series with the 240 v grid tie will do what you want.
 
todd
 
 
 
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 2:08pm, "Dave Palumbo" <dave at independentpowerllc.com> said:




We are installing a grid interactive, with battery back-up, OutBack Radian GS8048 with 5kW of PV. Vermont has a “Solar Adder” premium that varies from utility to utility but in this case adds 6 cents per kWh over and above net-metering (basically to come up to a par value of 20 cents/kWh for PV production).
 
 
 
We need to install a gross PV production meter between the main (utility) load center panel and the Radian inverter. We need a meter that is not multidirectional, as we only want to count the kWh’s that are pushed out into the grid (and not subtract what the Radian uses from utility power to satisfy the protected loads center when the sunlight doesn’t handle that).
 
 
 
Hialeah Meter offered a GE KV2CE meter that can be programmed to do what we need for $ 260 plus $25 programming fee.
 
 
 
The utility will have an option, but I’m wondering what other options others have used for this situation.
 
 
 
David Palumbo
Independent Power LLC
462 Solar Way Drive
Hyde Park, VT 05655 
www.independentpowerllc.com 
NABCEP Certified PV Installer
Vermont Solar Partner
23 Years Experience, (802) 888-7194
 
 
 


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