Post by account_disabled on Feb 18, 2024 3:46:54 GMT -5
There are more and more roofs equipped with solar panels . A good part of these homes remain connected to the commercial electricity grid to ensure supply when production is less than needs. At the same time, this connection implies that it is possible to pour production surpluses into the network, for which they will be compensated. During the day, if too much electricity is produced, it is injected into the commercial electricity grid, and at night, if the electricity stored in the batteries (or if they are lacking) is insufficient, it is the grid that supplies the home. This connection between the self-consumption system and the external electrical network therefore becomes essential and convenient, unless our installation is located in a remote location that lacks access to it.
Commercial electrical network But the fact that in some countries rooftops are being filled with solar panels and ever-larger solar farms are being built may pose a problem: Will the commercial power grid hold up if suddenly a large number of photovoltaic elements produce Phone Number List a excess electricity and it is poured into it? It is not an insignificant difficulty. On a particularly sunny day it is possible that there is a lot of electricity left over and that it has to be absorbed so that it flows through the network. Therefore, said network must be built to be able to withstand any surge, thus avoiding that, in the worst case, it ends up collapsing and ceasing to offer the service. Nowadays, networks are not always modern and could not cope with such a situation.
A possible solution would be to expand the electrical infrastructure to support higher peak loads. But this inexorably leads to high costs on the part of electricity companies. Another alternative would be to prevent the grid from being flooded with large amounts of electricity. This would imply storing the “surplus electricity” produced by the solar panels locally, that is, having enough batteries. The question now will be: is it worth it for the photovoltaic system operator to invest in this technology? Are there other storage options? Can the commercial power grid really be stabilized in this way? All these questions have been tried to be answered by researcher Philipp Heer, from the Empa organization.
Commercial electrical network But the fact that in some countries rooftops are being filled with solar panels and ever-larger solar farms are being built may pose a problem: Will the commercial power grid hold up if suddenly a large number of photovoltaic elements produce Phone Number List a excess electricity and it is poured into it? It is not an insignificant difficulty. On a particularly sunny day it is possible that there is a lot of electricity left over and that it has to be absorbed so that it flows through the network. Therefore, said network must be built to be able to withstand any surge, thus avoiding that, in the worst case, it ends up collapsing and ceasing to offer the service. Nowadays, networks are not always modern and could not cope with such a situation.
A possible solution would be to expand the electrical infrastructure to support higher peak loads. But this inexorably leads to high costs on the part of electricity companies. Another alternative would be to prevent the grid from being flooded with large amounts of electricity. This would imply storing the “surplus electricity” produced by the solar panels locally, that is, having enough batteries. The question now will be: is it worth it for the photovoltaic system operator to invest in this technology? Are there other storage options? Can the commercial power grid really be stabilized in this way? All these questions have been tried to be answered by researcher Philipp Heer, from the Empa organization.