Solar Power options for appartments, rentals, and small scale baseline energy usage at home
Solar Power options for appartments, rentals, and small scale baseline energy usage at home
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So ecoflow has come out with some crazy product that lets you offset your energy usage by using Solar. The target audience for this specific tech is apartment and rental units. (Anker is also currently working on one, but I think their product is only available in Germany at the moment)
While this can't/isn't designed to run your whole home, it can offset some of your energy usage, and since it utilizes a standalone backup battery you do have some small off grid redundancy.
What are the thoughts on this? Is distributing solar and batteries to potentially every appartment and environmental mistake? Or is this potentially a massive step towards a function and sustainable future grid?
If you did the math I would strongly suspect this unit could never pay for itself. In that case you're either using it because having the backup power is worth it, or because you believe there's some environmental benefit. On the environmental front, again, I can't imagine it'll ever "pay" for itself. So... Well, ok, or you get it because solar power and batteries are fun.
They don't provide any backup, they are purely to make your grid power-meter spinn slower or sometimes even feed back into the grid (when allowed).
The cheaper versions do make economic sense in countries with high electricity costs for home consumers, but its not a "great investment".
Yeah. It seems like a cool idea, but I can't quite understand the ecenomics being it.
I can see it being used as a "trial run" for people considering going solar or off grid in the future, it can be a safe first step, as the parts of these kits would integrate with the whole home systems sold by these same companies.