This might sound dumb, but I want a battery that will charge and discharge but will not allow power out to the grid. Makes it safe and prevents discharging it for some greedy power company’s benefit.
Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow.
Submitted 12 hours ago by inari@piefed.zip to energy@slrpnk.net
https://www.regen.co.uk/insights/plug-in-solar-is-coming-plug-in-batteries-should-follow
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DemandtheOxfordComma@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Kushan@lemmy.world 8 hours ago That’s how the plug in version has to work.
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
discharging it for some greedy power company’s benefit.
The benefit is not limited to the power company while we are transitioning away from fossil fuels. The more battery capacity is on the grid, the less fossil fuels need to be kept online when the sun is down. This benefits us all
If you have a variable rate, it also put shifts your usage patterns more favorably for pricing
Anivia@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Plenty of batteries allow you to do that
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
It might justify for a new standard for the main power box that can support these plug-in power sources.
Robin@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Mine is configured like that. Technically it could feed back to the grid but it doesn’t
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Plug in batteries, let kill line workers while they try to get your power back on. Like those nubs that have a genset and no ATS/isolation.
Worse the batteries don’t make sound like a genset. 18hr shift, hungry, don’t sniff the line and now a lineman is dead. All so you could keep the refrigerator cold… If you have a power bank/genset learn to throw the main breaker not to back feed the utility.
Robin@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
These batteries turn off when they don’t see mains power
credo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Then what’s the point? Hardwired batteries require physical gates that prevent backflow; so how do these work during an outage?
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Good to know if shore power goes down it doesn’t back feed. Not to be that guy but now I have to roll my fridge back to get the plug to get power back on?
In my limited world I would want to put in an ATS/hard breaker so I can power the essentials w/o killing lineman. Kill (open) the main breaker, close the alternate breaker and your gtg off a sub panel.
Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social 7 hours ago
Robin@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I have both already in Belgium, they’re great. The solar production and power usage in my townhouse were too low for a hardwired battery to make economic sense. But with plug in batteries the installation cost is basically 0 so you can get smaller sized batteries. The 5kwh one we got is plenty to cover from sundown to the next day, even if we decide to run a wash or something.
And then we already had regular solar panels. But the price of the plug-in ones was so low that we decide to build a rain shelter for our bikes out of wall-mounted solar panels. Close to the same price and made out of metal and glass instead of wood and plastic.