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Green Power Energy (GPE) completed our Photovoltaic/Battery installation in August 2022. It is a very nice looking and clean installation. Where we live we lose power quite often. Since Aug. 2022 our battery/solar backup has kicked in automatically for over 20 hours of blackouts or brownouts. No more waiting and wondering when the power company is going to get our power back up and running. Austin Dow and Kevin Nally have been great to work with regarding answering any and all questions regarding the design and installation.
Update – We lost power for 46 hours on 1/9/24 to 1/11/24 due to a winter storm. The battery/solar backup powered our house the entire time and worked perfectly.
Solar plus storage works by using the clean energy produced by a solar array to charge a battery system. In the case of grid outage, the battery system works in the same way a conventional generator would. The homeowner may select critical loads for the battery to cover during an outage. An advantage of a battery system over a gas-powered generator is that the solar array can continue to recharge batteries, allowing the system to operate indefinitely without fuel costs.
There are currently two types of battery systems, AC coupled systems, and DC coupled systems. An AC coupled system is best to be used in a retrofit situation, as the battery unit itself will have an inverter to convert the AC power coming off the solar inverter back to DC power used in the battery. A DC coupled system will offer a slightly higher efficiency than an AC coupled system. With a DC system, the power coming off the roof stays in DC all the way through the battery bank until it is ready to be used by the home.
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