If you use the wrong battery in any system it won’t work. I have included an excel file that shows 3 other batteries, and all of them are much more cost effective than the one used by Eric Stikes. It might just be that your co-op is trying to get ahead of the curve like many others are. Dumping batteries into the grid is not a new thing and will be more common than you might think in the near future. Solar Charged Battery Dumping at Peak TOU will be part of the bridge to full scale RE energy independence.
Rob From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Dahl Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:51 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery bank during peak times I agree as well, but this is going to be installed at the CO-OPs main office and be an example system for their customers to get info on solar. Paying the little we pay for electricity, none of their customers will end up with a system of this type, 95% of the time they just grid-tie. A system like this will not be a good rep of why PV systems will look like or cost. It seems shady to me... Jesse Sent from my iPhone On Jun 25, 2013, at 2:57 PM, eric.bent...@schneider-electric.com wrote: Hi Jesse, If the customer wants PV with battery storage capability, this can certainly reduce their utility bill. I agree that just charging off the grid during non-peak hours would not be very efficient, but when you add solar energy with storage to the equation, this can make a difference. Rgds, Eric _____________________________________________________________________________________ Eric Bentsen | Schneider Electric | Solar Business | UNITED STATES | Technical Support Representative Phone: +(650) 351-8237 ext. 001# | Email: <mailto:eric.bent...@schneider-electric.com> eric.bent...@schneider-electric.com | Site: <http://www.schneider-electric.com/solar> www.schneider-electric.com/solar | Address: 250 South Vasco Rd., Livermore, CA 94551 <mime-attachment.jpg> *** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: Jesse Dahl <dahlso...@gmail.com> To: RE-wrenches <RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> Date: 06/24/2013 08:51 PM Subject: [RE-wrenches] Battery bank during peak times Sent by: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org _____ Hello, I was contacted by a local co-op about installing a PV system at their office. At first they wanted a straight grid-tied system, and after they received the bid they changed their minds and now want a battery based system price. What they want now is a system that will allow them to draw the battery bank down starting at 5pm during their peak demand time. Has anyone worked on or installed a system of this type? Thanks as always! Jesse ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change email address & settings: <http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: <http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
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