a $250 generator won’t power your house. Maybe a few appliances.

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> On Jul 13, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> 
> WHen you go grid-tie solar, nothing changes.  you do the same thing you did
> before.  A $250 generator and a $15 can of  gas is far more cost effective
> to produce a few dollars worth of power outage comapred to a $13,000
> battery to produce $2 worth of power (a 14 hour outage)...  Bob
> 
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 7:05 PM paul dove <dov...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is power outage. If the grid goes down
>> with net metering so does you solar.
>> 
>> You have to be off-grid to stay powered when the grid fails.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jul 14, 2019, at 11:16 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> But why are you so determined to use batteies when the cost of grid power
>>> is ditrt cheap.
>>> 
>>> a 1kwh deep cycle lead acid battery might cost $100.  It will store 10
>>> cents of electricity per day.
>>> After one year it is SHOT.  that is $100/365 days or about 27 cents per
>>> kWh.  So you are paying TRIPLE the cost of electricity just for a battery
>>> compared to just getting it from the grid?  And this does not even
>> mention
>>> the cost of solar panels.  This is purely battery storage costs.
>>> 
>>> Even if you find magic battteries that can do 1000 discharges before
>>> replacement, that still is 10 cents per kWh storage cost and still does
>> not
>>> even count the cost of solar to get the energy inthe first place.
>>> 
>>> AND, unless you do a full cycle of thebattery everyday, to use y our
>>> incoming solar, then you are not fully using your array.investment.  Sure
>>> you can throw away all kinds of money at this problem, but nothing
>> canbeat
>>> being grid-tied and a net meter.  Just do it.  Do a small system at
>>> contractor prices... then add panels at your leisure and at 20% of the
>> cost.
>>> 
>>> bob
>>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:50 AM Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Actually, I am proposing something simpler than a power wall - that does
>>>> not feed back to the grid. Maybe that simplification doesn't reduce the
>>>> cost of the battery system much, but it would reduce the legal paper
>>>> work down to a normal electrical permit.
>>>> 
>>>> Peri
>>>> 
>>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>>> From: "Willie via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
>>>> To: ev@lists.evdl.org
>>>> Cc: "Willie" <wmckem...@gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: 14-Jul-19 7:30:58 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Solar off grid with an EV? (transformers)
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 7/14/19 9:06 AM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
>>>>>> How hard would it be to build a battery system that normally supplies
>>>> 100% of the domestic power but, when depleted, switches over to supply
>>>> domestic power from the grid ? Also, I think it would be safe
>> assumption,
>>>> or at least a reasonable simplification, to assume that the battery is
>>>> always sufficient for the load, except when depleted. The battery would
>>>> always be charging from a solar array, never from the grid.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It seems to me, a system like this would completely circumvent any
>>>> negative conditions imposed by power companies. Of course, once the
>> solar
>>>> panels fill the battery, excess production is lost.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You have described a PowerWall.  The battery is one or more units that
>>>> will supply or charge 5kw and holds 13-14kwh.  If about 11kwh will carry
>>>> you over night and if you don't use more than 5kw over night, a single
>>>> battery unit will serve you.  With good sun, day time self power use
>> can be
>>>> around 20kw, including car charging.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In 5 or so months, I have bought less than 10kwh from my utility and
>> sold
>>>> them something like 10,000 kwh.  That is with one battery unit.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cost installed was about $13k.  For smooth operation, I am highly
>>>> dependent on the utility to accept my excess power.
>>>>> 
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