Currently it is providing around 5% to my daily consumption, which is not much. It's December and the heatpump is running hard.
The biggest challenge is to prevent export to the grid. The sun is shining when the consumption of the house is the lowest. Currently I am preventing it with some #homeassistant automations, which turn on dehumidifier (which I use for drying clothes) in a laundry room or a boiler.
@po3mah do you have an electric hot water tank? I've heard of strategically running it more/hotter when you have surplus power. Almost works like a battery.
@Andrew BTW it's not much 'leakage', I already consume 90% of produced electricity. But now it's winter and in summer it will be worse (less consumption and more production).
@po3mah oh ok that's cool! I wonder if you could do something similar with a refrigerator. Maybe have it powered off for an hour or 2 before solar kicks in to save grid usage, then it would "catch up" on cooling with solar. Would have to watch fridge temperature of course.
@po3mah I’m not an expert, but I assume you can’t prevent it. When you don’t consume electricity it will be exported. You could use a battery to minimize exports.
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