Self consumption
With self-consumption, you store your excess solar power to use later.
Self consumption
With self-consumption, you store your excess solar power to use later.
One of the drawbacks of solar energy systems is that the Sun doesn't provide a constant stream of energy. On cloudy days or at night, the amount of energy your system receives is reduced or eliminated altogether. This in turn impacts the amount of electricity that your system produces during those times.
To overcome this drawback, Where solar power needs to be used when the sun does not shine, it is usually stored in batteries. These are the same batteries used for other applications, and could be based on lead-acid, lithium-ion, etc. However, only some select types of batteries (deep discharge/cycle) within the available range are optimal for solar power plants owing to the specific aspects of solar power generation and use.
With self-consumption, you store your excess solar power to use later.
With self-consumption, you store your excess solar power to use later.
Backup storage is the method of storing power to use during a grid outage.
Backup storage is the method of storing power to use during a grid outage.
If your goal is to be off-grid, you use storage to be energy self-sufficient, without relying on the grid.
If your goal is to be off-grid, you use storage to be energy self-sufficient, without relying on the grid.
Solar Eclipse is the only ingenious system that allows you to take full advantage of all the electricity in your PV system without having to modify it or buy a new inverter. Solar Eclipse is an intelligent electronic system that stores excess electricity produced by the traditional photovoltaic system. Not only, it charges any kind of regular batteries (lead, gel, lithium, etc.) and then re-uses them when necessary (at night time or when solar irradiation is low). With Solar Eclipse, modification to your existing system is completely unnecessary. It simply connects to the PV modules on one side and to the inverter “grid” on the other. Last of all, four ordinary 12 V batteries with a capacity of at least 100Ah, are connected.
When the power of the PV modules exceeds the power required to run your household appliances, Solar Eclipse begins to store energy in the four batteries, energy which would otherwise be directed to the mains power supply, by functioning as a continuous current battery charger.
When the power required by the household appliances exceeds that of the photovoltaic modules (for example on cloudy days or at night), Solar Eclipse draws the energy stored in the batteries and feeds it to your inverter “grid” enabling it to function in such a way that the appliances have no need to draw energy from the mains power supply. Solar Eclipse therefore functions as though it were a battery charger when there is an excess of solar power, as though it were a string of PV modules irradiated from the sun when the solar power is insufficient or absent altogether.
This way, the inverter “grid” produces enough power to cope with a range of loads therefore reducing input to the mains in the daytime as well as functioning at night.