Huge power outages have hit major cities across Spain and Portugal. Flights, traffic lights, trains, phone networks and card payments have been affected, with reports of panic-buying at supermarkets. Follow the latest here.
No it’s good for the energy transition of you get solar+battery, especially if you’re in France. Sellers of these systems often promise you a return on investment based on historical data. Be aware though that due to the energy transition business cases can quickly develop unexpectedly. You’re taking on risk.
There’s some technical pieces I’m missing about the European implementation. Do you have a link to the system you’re looking at or the name? I’m happy to learn more.
I’m a bit proponent of solar. Get it in whatever form you can. Balcony solar is a great concept, so if thats what’s available to you, I’d say go for it. As for grid stability, you’re one person. You have no ability to affect operations at the grid level. The regulators in your region will have to account for people like you and your electricity needs and put in place solutions for future stability.
Any reduction in electricity from fossil fuels is a win. Get solar.
They are always associated with a Linky smart meter (only meter allowed in the Country, no matter who you are subscribed to, there is only 1 nationwide grid operator and planner ). That meter is designed with home batteries, home generation in it’s design as well as utilities ability to selectively put heaters / car chargers into an eco mode if the need arises.
The thing is, I’ve been eyeing those solar+battery systems to save up a bit but I really don’t want to be part of the problem with grid failures.
No it’s good for the energy transition of you get solar+battery, especially if you’re in France. Sellers of these systems often promise you a return on investment based on historical data. Be aware though that due to the energy transition business cases can quickly develop unexpectedly. You’re taking on risk.
There’s some technical pieces I’m missing about the European implementation. Do you have a link to the system you’re looking at or the name? I’m happy to learn more.
I’m a bit proponent of solar. Get it in whatever form you can. Balcony solar is a great concept, so if thats what’s available to you, I’d say go for it. As for grid stability, you’re one person. You have no ability to affect operations at the grid level. The regulators in your region will have to account for people like you and your electricity needs and put in place solutions for future stability.
Any reduction in electricity from fossil fuels is a win. Get solar.
There’s the popular but expensive ecoflow stream,
At the other extremity this solarchoc one seems too cheap to be serious and uses zendure hardware. I’ll have to look on review sites…
( https://www.solarchoc.com/plug-and-play/209734-kit-solaire-2000w-4-panneaux-solaires-jolywood-500w-1-micro-onduleur-batterie-zendure-autoconsommation-plugplay-wallis.html )
And many many others between those 2 extremities…
They are always associated with a Linky smart meter (only meter allowed in the Country, no matter who you are subscribed to, there is only 1 nationwide grid operator and planner ). That meter is designed with home batteries, home generation in it’s design as well as utilities ability to selectively put heaters / car chargers into an eco mode if the need arises.