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TyrelHaveman

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Bellingham, WA
My wife's Soul in front of our 12 kW ground-mount solar array.

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Thanks Tyrel for a really awesome picture :p

Thanks for sharing!

Do you have a battery bank for your solar array, or is all the electricity produced put right into the grid?

I have been thinking about buying an old used EV of some sort, just to use the battery as storage for electricity produced by a solar array, and the permanent magnet motor in EV's are perfect for use as a generator in wind turbine.
 
We don't have a battery bank; it's grid-tied. In our area we'd need several million dollars worth of batteries to be able to store enough energy to last through the winter, when we get little sun, so grid-tried is the way to go: it's like a giant, free battery, since we have net-metering.
 
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