Re:Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer sol...
by toast0 on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:04PM
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Depends on your local grid reliability.
It would have been foolish to have a whole house generator where (and when) I lived before I moved where I am. Where I live now, utility power is less than three nines, and some years doesn't quite make it to two.
Solar without storage usually is grid tied, but even if it runs isolated, it doesn't help overnight. Batteries for a multiday outage are still quite expensive compared to a generator.
A whole house battery would be nice though, at least some of the systems can switch power quick enough that I wouldn't need UPSes at all my computers, and the battery maintenance that requires (of course, the large system would probanly require maintenance)
It would have been foolish to have a whole house generator where (and when) I lived before I moved where I am. Where I live now, utility power is less than three nines, and some years doesn't quite make it to two.
Solar without storage usually is grid tied, but even if it runs isolated, it doesn't help overnight. Batteries for a multiday outage are still quite expensive compared to a generator.
A whole house battery would be nice though, at least some of the systems can switch power quick enough that I wouldn't need UPSes at all my computers, and the battery maintenance that requires (of course, the large system would probanly require maintenance)