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Grid-Tied Solar
Grid-Tied Solar With Backup
What is Grid-tied/On-Grid solar?
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On-grid means your solar system is tied to your local utility’s GRID. In the case of Kerala your utility gird is KSEB. The benefit of Grid tied solar for residential is that you are covered if your solar system under or over-produces in regard to your varying energy needs. Essentially this means that your utility grid acts as your battery space. If you are producing more energy with your solar panels or system than you are using, the excess energy is sent to your grid’s power company, allowing you to build credit that you can use later during high energy need situations or cash out with at the end of the year This process is called net metering. Being grid-tied is beneficial because you don’t have to buy an expensive battery back-up system to store any excess energy.
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Pros of a Grid-Tied Solar System:
- Grid-tied systems tend to be the less expensive option, due to not needing batteries and not needing to replace batteries every 3-5 years.
- The grid acts as your battery. You can continue to pull electricity from the grid if your needs exceed on occasions. In off grid solar this would lead to a system failure and you being out of electricity for your home.
- Net Metering allows the electricity generated by a solar system to offset the electricity used from the grid during the night or cloudy days
- So if sized right an On-grid Solar system can give your zero consumption bill from your utility company without any of the hassles of a pure off- Grid system.
- If you are producing more power than you use the Utility company will give you money for all the credit units that you produce once a year.
- Because there are no batteries in the system the On-grid system proves to be more reliable than off grid systems.
- The on- Grid system is also more greener and sustainable from an environmental view point as it lacks batteries.
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Cons of an On-Grid system
- The only con for an On Grid system is that when the power grid fails your solar production stops for safety reasons. This is called anti-islanding and is done so that any person working on the power lines is not electrocuted. This means that you need to have a backup power for when the power grid fails.
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What is On-grid with backup?
This is the latest and the most effective solar system that is being used world over and is available to you in India now. It gives you all the advantages of Grid tied and off grid combined. This hybrid system lets you have all the advantages of On-Grid and counters the con of grid tied solar that is no built in power backup. The solar power is stored into batteries for the event of a grid power failure. Using this solution when the grid fails you will still have power backup that will keep your house running. The size of the backup can be scaled according to your needs just like our solar systems. So the backup size can be kept small to run your essential loads or can be as big as running multiple ACs etc .. according to your budget. You don’t have to worry about power outages and your life can go carefree of them. This is what is used in the most advanced Nations like Germany etc. Kindly get in touch with us and we will give you more details about the same.
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