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HiTech
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May 17, 2013

Grid tie inverter with power outage capability

I liek the direction some of these grid tie inverters are taking. The ideal unit would let you grid tie extra power back to the utility but still have batteries, but this is a really good step. Gri...
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Dutch_12078
Explorer II
May 17, 2013
We looked into grid tying our residential hydroelectric generation system years ago at a former home. The costs to install the equipment needed versus the low rate that the power company would pay us made it economically unfeasible. Our payback time would have been about 75 years. Instead, we "made do" with the 70% savings on our electric costs that gave us about a 4 year payback on the entire hydro system.

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