I posted another general set of questions about my new system design. This is specific to the inverter.
The system engineer at my PoCo told me (in writing) that I don't need permission from them to use a grid tie inverter as long as I don't plan to export (net metering) power to them. He went on to say there are several inverter models that have this option to use grid power when needed but to not export power to the grid.
My specific question is which inverters do this and what is the best of them? I got some technical info from an online solar site about the SE having some controls that allow no export and limited export, etc. Are there others that do this without having to buy expensive communication modules like with SE. at least from what the tech support guy told me, it adds about $500 for the communication gateway along with the required optimizers. In total about $2700 for the inverter and all the modules.
The system engineer at my PoCo told me (in writing) that I don't need permission from them to use a grid tie inverter as long as I don't plan to export (net metering) power to them. He went on to say there are several inverter models that have this option to use grid power when needed but to not export power to the grid.
My specific question is which inverters do this and what is the best of them? I got some technical info from an online solar site about the SE having some controls that allow no export and limited export, etc. Are there others that do this without having to buy expensive communication modules like with SE. at least from what the tech support guy told me, it adds about $500 for the communication gateway along with the required optimizers. In total about $2700 for the inverter and all the modules.
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