Electricity is simple for most houses. Electricity comes through the meter to where the customer is billed, and goes to the circuit breaker where the electricity is distributed throughout the house. However, there are problems with this system. There are surges, and spikes that causes voltage fluctuations where it can damage electrical equipment. This doesn’t happen too often, but often enough for someone cursing the electric service because it blew up the computer or television. There is also the issue of power blackouts, and surges that will cut power for just a second or two which can also damage expensive items. So how will this problem be solved? With battery banks.
Under normal circumstances, the electricity will come in, and provide service. Let’s assume you have a generator. It would take a few seconds for the generator to turn on. This could be 3 seconds that your hard drive fails while doing an OS update. There is a better solution. The solar panels will feed electricity to the battery banks. The grid will provide to the battery banks. The battery banks provide electricity to the circuit panel, and therefore the rest of the house. This means that if there is a grid outage, the full battery banks will not get electricity for a few seconds before the back up solution works. You won’t even know the electrical grid is out. This means nothing is abruptly shutting off until a generator can turn on, and create the electricity necessary.
And as mentioned, there will be solar panels. The roof is flat, and the panels will use sun tracking technology which will double the number of solar hours that the panels will be able to generate. This is because sun tracking allows for the panels to follow the sun as it goes through the sky. With double the solar hours, it will decrease how much electricity will be taken from the grid. When more electricity is being generated than use, the meter will go backwards (legally) while the electricity feeds the grid. When the need arises (hopefully rarely), then the house will take electricity from the grid – again going through the bank rather than the residence’s electrical lines.
When the grid is not available, and. there is no power in the battery banks, there will be a gas fed generator that will kick on, and as with electricity from the grid will feed the battery banks rather than the house itself. This will allow me to be assured that I would always have electricity, and conserve my electricity when running on the generator.