[RE-wrenches] Battery Back-up and Grid Tie

Chris Mason cometenergysystems at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 11:35:34 PDT 2013


For the price that you would spend on batteries and a Sunny Island system,
you could buy and install a generator. I would go that route.


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Bill Turberville <billturb at ece-llc.com>wrote:

> Not very often, and usually for no more than an hour or two, although it
> has been down as long as 5 days, either during tornado season, or ice
> taking down power lines.  What these people are looking for is Just In Case
> a big event happens.  They do not want to have all those panels just
> sitting there.
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> *From:* re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:
> re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] *On Behalf Of *Jay Peltz
> *Sent:* Friday, April 26, 2013 12:25 PM
> *To:* RE-wrenches
> *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery Back-up and Grid Tie
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> Hi bill
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> Just how often is your grid down?
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> Jay
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> Peltz power
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Bill Turberville <billturb at ece-llc.com>
> wrote:
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> I live in a TVA area where there is a Feed In Tariff.  Everything that is
> generated by the PV array feeds into the grid through a Generation Meter
> that ties-in ahead of the house meter.  I have started getting calls from
> customers who hate having a solar array that does not generate when the
> grid is down but the sun is shining, but who also want to get the $.12
> premium when the grid is connected.  We have lots of systems with SMA
> Sunnyboy inverters, but more with Enphase micro-inverters.  Rather than
> trying to reinvent the wheel, what you found to be the best solution for
> this type of installation?
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Chris Mason
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