Hoggsback was such a special place to do a solar PV installation. At first we were very worried about shading from trees, but luckily this small holding doesn’t have many big trees. The client is very conscious of the environment and wanted a sustainable way of using electricity.
There are also many power outages in Hoggsback and they sometimes have to go 5 days without municipal electricity. We suggested to the client that the 8kW off grid system that we have done a few times now will be sufficient for their power needs. We coupled that with a massive battery bank in case of misty and rainy weather for more than 2 days. We had some niggles getting everything to work, but got the system running flawlessly in the end. The client also opted for 4 solar geyser with evacuated tube collectors to cut down further on electric consumption.
The system specs are as follows:
2 x 4kW off grid inverters
20 x 320w Polycrystaline PV panels
24 x single cell 2V 1050Ah batteries
4 x 16 tube collectors with solar geysers
The system will provide an estimated 25kW/h of electricity per day and the battery bank will have 50kW/h of storage.
Post time: Jun-13-2017