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How can the Grid use energy from small renewable sources such as a PV roof panel?

We are encouraged to generate renewable energy and to sell our surplus to the grid. A householder sells a few kWh of energy at 240v. How far away can this be used? Just on the local loop or anywwhere in the country - which would require transmission at higher voltages?

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Georg says:

After feed of some electric power into the grid,

You cannot distinguish that current from the rest in the grid!.

But:

There is no problem basically with "longe range".

The transformers connecting the local to the medium voltage

grid will transform the current generated from the

roofs back. Controlling a generator feeding into a

AC grid is not an easy task. Whether the small

generators  control circuits are sophisticated enough to feed

back up to a middle voltage net? I do not know.

Feeding back upward would imply a lot of such generators.

There might be a problem to get them work synchronously

when their combined feed would exeed the power consumed

in the local net.

Georg

 

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posted on 2010-12-20 17:34:35 | Report abuse


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