[RE-wrenches] Smart grid grid-connected compatibility

Chris Mason cometenergysystems at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 16:25:39 PDT 2012


That's a brilliant solution, if the utility is cooperative.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Doug Wells
<dwells at thesolarspecialists.com>wrote:

> Kent,
>
> I went through a similar situation with an Enphase system.  With a little
> discussion we decided that the easiest change is on the Utility side.  We
> encouraged the utility to put all solar systems with Smart metering on a
> different schedule.  Now the solar residence is only pinged at night when
> the frequency shift wont cause the inverters to drop out.
> I wonder how many string inverters are doing the same thing but go
> unnoticed.  The Enlighten graphs make detection of this event very evident
> as it looks like a huge crash every day at the exact same time.
>
> Doug Wells
> The Solar Specialists
> Morrisville, VT 05661
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