Hi guys,
Im new to this forum, so have not read much about this before. so if this has been covered, please bear with me. Perhaps direct me to the relevant topic.
What I would like to do is connect a hydraulic turbine from a nearby stream to my house. The turbine will at times be able to supply more power than I can use, and at other times it will only supply much less than is required to power everything in the house.
The problem here in South Africa at the moment is that our electrical service provider(Eskom) cannot accept grid tie systems.
So if the turbine produces more than we can use we need to dump the power through a resistive load, this is fine.
my problem is how to wire the house so that the equipment in the house uses the green power first and then draws the surplus from the national grid.
The problem is how will the turbine/generator know that its supplying to much and dump the energy instead of forcing it into the grid?
Does the grid and green power have to be completely seperated? What equipment is sits in between the 2 power supplies for it to be managed properly?
please help, have been struggling on this for a while, thanks
Im new to this forum, so have not read much about this before. so if this has been covered, please bear with me. Perhaps direct me to the relevant topic.
What I would like to do is connect a hydraulic turbine from a nearby stream to my house. The turbine will at times be able to supply more power than I can use, and at other times it will only supply much less than is required to power everything in the house.
The problem here in South Africa at the moment is that our electrical service provider(Eskom) cannot accept grid tie systems.
So if the turbine produces more than we can use we need to dump the power through a resistive load, this is fine.
my problem is how to wire the house so that the equipment in the house uses the green power first and then draws the surplus from the national grid.
The problem is how will the turbine/generator know that its supplying to much and dump the energy instead of forcing it into the grid?
Does the grid and green power have to be completely seperated? What equipment is sits in between the 2 power supplies for it to be managed properly?
please help, have been struggling on this for a while, thanks