06-01-2013, 02:34 PM
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Originally posted by Wuzzerdad
I hate to tell the sheep that the shepherd is going to slaughter you. They already started by convincing you that the "grid" had become unstable because of solar. Thats hogwash everybody. For every KW added to the grid, the fossil fuel fired plant has to work less. It is distributed energy, out on the gird that is already built to handle the loads and has done so. There is not a net surplus of energy nor any danger of the grid failing because of the loads. It actually is much more efficent because the energy is used much closer to the place it was produced. Not as much transmission loss over long distances. Electricity runs both ways through the wires, to and from where it is produced as demand is created or shed. Get an "expert" solar guy to start raising heck with HELCO and the legislature before they take your net metering ability away. All solar inverters will not produce more energy than what can be consumed by the provider and the grid, ohms law, you know, actual science governs that statement. [!] All Helco has to do to balance the grid is to raise or lower the voltage of their plants to adjust the amount of energy it produces. Which is easily done. And monitor, which they already do through the net metering meter the voltage output of the distributed inverters and make the customers adjust their voltage out put accordingly. This is a function of software on all modern UL 1741 certified solar power inverters. Watts is the amount of work, with voltage being like pressure, pushing the watts (curent) where it needs to go.
I am infinately qualified to comment about this, so go ahead and take a shot about it. [:p]
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
Mahalo
Rick
mahalo ! nest nail please...above makes perfect sense to me.