[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Do you have home solar?
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Ask HN: Do you have home solar?
Hi! I'm one of the co-founders of Jasmine Energy (YC S22) and I'm
looking for people who have installed solar panels on their home.
If thats you, would you be open to sharing the documents you
received from your installer? We're working on a new tool at
Jasmine Energy that may be able to help you find rebates and
incentives buried deep in those documents.
Author : mmayberry
Score : 15 points
Date : 2024-07-15 18:20 UTC (4 hours ago)
| novateg wrote:
| I have home solar. I'm interested
| mmayberry wrote:
| Thank you. Just sent you an email
| sharpshadow wrote:
| Germany is steadily reducing the legal hurdles to install balcony
| solar plants. Now one does not have to ask the landlord for
| permission, no tax, 800W allowed, etc..
|
| Berlin grants one 500EUR with the purchase of a balkony solar
| plant.
| idontwantthis wrote:
| Do you run it as it's own circuit or do you connect it to your
| main power somehow?
| sharpshadow wrote:
| Own circuit, main power, feeding it back to the grid for
| profit, feeding it back to the grid for free are possible
| options. The options come with additional costs.
|
| In the latest round of new regulations they allowed the use
| of 230V Schuko plugs for balkony plants.
| idontwantthis wrote:
| That's wild. There's no way I could ever do that with a
| condo or rental house in the U.S. I would never get to
| touch main power.
| jupp0r wrote:
| I think all you do is connect the inverter to any wall
| outlet. Basically a male-to-male power chord.
| mikestew wrote:
| Surely it is something safer than a suicide cord,[0]
| especially if used inside where things like children
| live.
|
| [0]https://www.consumerreports.org/home-
| garden/generators/why-s...
| phiresky wrote:
| It's a male end on the PV side, but every of these plug-
| in inverters I've seen only start outputting when they
| get the 220V 50Hz input, so they are inert as long as
| they are not plugged in. As far as I know they always
| rely on the grid frequency.
| prdonahue wrote:
| I do, feel free to DM on Twitter. Just pull an 18 kW system in a
| few months ago and it's been great.
|
| (Full disclosure: I'm in the solar industry, but on the software
| side. Recently left Cloudflare to join Aurora Solar as CPO.)
| mmayberry wrote:
| DM sent. Much appreciated!
| Yawrehto wrote:
| No, but when the roof eventually needs repair we probably will.
| Sounds like an interesting idea though!
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Consider talking with the folks running NREL's SolarAPP platform.
| Potential partnership opportunity considering the data flows in
| scope for automated permitting.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40777288
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| https://solarapp.nrel.gov/
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