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I am looking at the solar panel/battery combination, and wondered about using Economy 7 overnight to top up the batteries.
What concerns me is that if the battery is filled 100% at night, there will be no space left to store any free power when the sun comes up. What I was hoping was that today''s systems would work out how much spare capacity to leave in the battery overnight to prevent that from happening. Obviously that calculation would vary by season.
Has anyone any information about this please? I have yet to find anything online.
Really interested to hear your take!
Our current tariff is fixed for another year so we haven''t got economy 7 but definitely interested in moving to this when this ends.
My plan would be - Nov-Feb fully charge battery overnight. Rest of the year, charge battery from solar.
Our 5KWh battery has dropped our electricity usage by about 60% between march and October, a pretty incredible impact especially with rising prices.
Hi, this can be done by seasonal power plans with SolarEdge systems but I am not sure how good the next day forecasting actually works.
To be honest with a good solar system the PV generation is very predictable and you can make battery energy plans to suit.
I have just ordered (but am still waiting) for their new Energy Bank 10kW DC battery to add to my existing solar system. The software looks very flexible and can prioritise battery charge and discharge to maximise solar self consumption and top up at cheaper rates. When I have it (sometime in June hopefully) I will do a review / case study of my own system with lots of geeky data for people to look at.
The biggest problem with solar PV and battery storage is the integration of the two. I would recommend for someone that doesn''t yet have either, to get the system designed from scratch as a complete solar and storage system. I am a huge fan of Solaredge because of their optimisers and dc power control but Solax and GivEnergy do some very good hybrid inverters as well but I can''t comment about their software control.
I would recommend getting a quote done by a local installer with a few different options / price points. I am happy to check the details of the quote and designs once you have them.
Because everybody''s house and budgets are different I would get some quotes / options narrowed down first.
Thanks everyone. Definitely food for thought. I would certainly be happy to control the overnight charging myself manually based on the following day''s forecast.
But I had a fitter around today, and asked him this question. He put me through to an engineer at his company, who assured me that their current systems (and presumably others too) are now clever enough to do all this for me. According to him, the programmed integration with the batteries sorts out how much to charge overnight based on my usage pattern. He also said that, in 20 years in the industry, no-one has asked him that before. Surely this feature would be a major USP?
Home Assistant has a solar insolation predictor for the next day.So all the pieces are in place but at the moment there''s no common API interface across the manufacturers so each would have to be integrated.I suspect we''ll see something like this in Home Assistant as adoption increases.
That said, it may be OVO are more focused on peak time grid balancing than maximising self-consumption.
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