Video quality not so great but good enough, very nice set up there, Solar is a great idea, but batteries are the greatest liability of the system. how do you handle such a problem?
This is grid tied we don't need no stinking batteries
1000 x 300 watt panels = 300,000 kwatts or 300 kwatts. we mine with 40 kwatts of that 300 kwatts and sell 260 kwatts each hour of sunlight
so 5 hours on average full sun is 19 hours you need to buy back
so in a day we sell 5 x 260 = 1300 kwatts then buyback 19 x 40 = 760 kwatts
the power company charges more for the buy back then the sell so the 1300 we sell earns about 800 to buyback
we do a push or break even with the power company that acts as the battery system.
the power company gets a gain of 1300-760 = 540 kwatts a day
we end up with 40 x 24 = 960 kwatts at no cost each day
You need a lot of space for 1000 x 300 watt panels this warehouse has them. It is about
200,000 sq ft edit 95000 sq foot roof
I will do more post and photos over time.
This part of the buildout is where we create a power demand to justify the 300kwatt roof top system.
we are pulling 47kwatts at power company price of 11 cents that is about 47 x 24 x 30 = 33,840 monthly kwatts at 11 cents = 3800 usd
we need to do this for 4 months for about 16000 in power cost. This is part of the startup cost for the solar setup.
say the 300kwatts = $600,000
then add 16,000 power
and add 10,000 mining gear
and 4,000 wiring structure =
630,000 to build the system
then the federal and NJ incentives are based on that number
most of the cost is for the panels the incentives make it viable.
THIS DOES NOT WORK IN MANY STATESit does work in NJ