They aren't looking to be 100% off the grid, they want to keep their grid connection and backfeed into the grid when they aren't using the panel's full output. That's probably what's keeping them from turning the panels on.
Batteries, how do they work? Is that literally all this is? There' nowhere for excess power to go? That can just be burned off, or not gathered. It doesn't need to be stored, it doesn't need to be sent to the grid. I'm so confused. This article is retarded, so are you though which explains why you understand the nonissue.
Nearly 1,300 gigawatts worth of green energy projects, for example, are waiting to be connected to power, according to a recent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report. The country's entire electric grid has an installed power capacity of just 1,250 gigawatts.
THAT IS MEANINGLESS. reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Just turn the panels off (not collecting and transferring energy), it wouldn't take some enormous technological feat. If there's no current draw OFF, if there is: ON. Also that number is clearly a (((lie))). That's at 100% efficiency at peak hours, which will never even come close to being reached. This article feels like feel good porn for (((green energy))).
The issue is they want to spin their electric meter backwards when there's excess power and the local utility isn't willing to make the proper connections. You can't just feed power back into the grid, it has to be properly isolated and connected or you get energized lines when linemen are expecting them to be dead.
If they just wanted to be off the grid they'd tell the utility to pull the meter and that would be that.
The issue is they want to spin their electric meter backwards when there's excess power and the local utility isn't willing to make the proper connections. You can't just feed power back into the grid, it has to be properly isolated and connected or you get energized lines when linemen are expecting them to be dead.
Understood, on / off automation exists. Is there power draw (the grid can handle and wants more power): Panel.collection.state = 1 Is there no power draw: Panel.collection.state = 0
If they just wanted to be off the grid they'd tell the utility to pull the meter and that would be that.
Yes. They don't want that and while that's unrelated that is something that completely off grid setups have to keep in mind - that being excess power to what their battery storage + current usage requires. Those systems have the above on them.
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