Analysis of my home battery + solar system’s first year performance
Guest author, Andrew Wilson, reviews the performance of his home solar + battery system at the one year mark after installation.
distributed energy resources
Why controlling residential solar inverters is more complicated than it appears
SwitchDin’s Joseph Kassouf examines the real-world challenges of coordinating control of rooftop solar inverters.
DER Visibility and Monitoring Best Practice Guide – real time data is key to industry growth
Several stakeholders within the DER industry have come together to publish a best practice guide specifying the data required to enable aspects of the next iteration of our electricity network. Our guest author, Stefan Jarnason of Solar Analytics, writes about the need for real time DER data and explains aspects of the guide.
Some initial musings about my own Rooftop Solar Learning Exercise
There’s already been a large uptake of distributed energy generation data, and there promises to be much more to come in this energy transition. With this comes some significant challenges – along with opportunities (with respect to the electricity production itself, and also in terms of the data that’s produced). So in the interest of doing things better, here’s a detailed look at our own rooftop solar experiences at home.