SMART MICROGRID

A microgrid is a local energy grid with control capability, which means it can disconnect from the traditional grid and operate autonomously and smart.

To understand how a microgrid works, you first have to understand how the grid works. The grid connects homes, businesses and other buildings to central power sources, which allow us to use appliances, heating/cooling systems and electronics. But this interconnectedness means that when part of the grid needs to be repaired, everyone is affected. This is where a microgrid can help. A microgrid generally operates while connected to the grid, but importantly, it can break off and operate on its own using local energy generation in times of crisis like storms or power outages, or for other reasons. A microgrid can be powered by generator, batteries, and/or renewable resources like solar panels and can be control remotely.

The SPAN Panel is a smart electrical panel designed to modernize your home energy system by completely replacing your existing electrical panel, whether new-build or retrofit. With SPAN you can control and monitor every circuit in your home from your phone, understand how your home is sourcing, storing, and using energy in real-time, and modernize your home without worrying about your existing electrical system.

The Enphase Energy System is a complete solution that produces, stores, monitors, controls, and analyzes the energy in your home. There are four main components of an Enphase Energy System: 1.Enphase Microinverters are installed beneath each solar module and convert DC power to AC power. Each microinverter sends AC power to your home's electrical panel (site load center) and transmits performance data over your home's electrical wiring to the Gateway. 2.Enphase Batteries work with the Envoy-S Metered, allowing you to store excess energy that your solar panels produce during midday and save it to use later in the afternoon and evening when you need it. 3.The Enphase IQ Gateway transmits performance information to Enphase App over the Internet. 4.Enphase App software lets you monitor your system's performance online and provides diagnostic tools for your solar professional.

The Enphase storage system manages many energy resources - including solar, storage, load, grid, and a generator to work together as a system with IQ batteries. When an Enphase storage system is connected to the grid, the system works as a traditional grid-tied system. During a grid failure or an outage, the Enphase System Controller detects the outage. It then seamlessly transitions the home energy system from the grid to a backup operation mode with the help of the IQ Batteries. The IQ Batteries depending on the time of day provides backup power to loads and helps form a micro-grid by providing reference voltage and frequency during grid outage or failure. When the grid comes back, several hours or days later, the System Controller senses the grid and reconnects the Enphase system back to the grid.

The simple answer is yes, a solar installation will charge your electric car just as it will supply energy for the rest of your home appliances. Even a small solar panel array with only 10 solar panels can provide enough power to charge your vehicle's battery.

Most zero-energy buildings use the electrical grid for energy storage but some are independent of the grid. Energy is usually harvested on-site through energy producing technologies like solar and wind, while reducing the overall use of energy with highly efficient HVAC and lighting technologies such as LED. The zero-energy goal is becoming more practical as the costs of alternative energy technologies decrease and the costs of traditional fossil fuels increase.

The bill specifically requires that 50 percent of California's electricity to be powered by renewable resources by 2025 and 60 percent by 2030, while calling for a "bold path" toward 100 percent zero-carbon electricity by 2045. ("Zero-carbon" sources include nuclear power, which is not renewable.)

Examples of going electric are switching to a heat pump rather than a furnace, buying an induction cooktop, and using an electric dryer or even a clothesline to dry your clothes. To take a step further toward clean energy, many homeowners also install solar panels to power their homes.

Intelligent Energy-Management The heating knows what the shading is doing and ensures that the solar energy is used in winter, for example, because the shading remains up and the heating is throttled. ▷ Automatically ensures the right feel-good temperature in all rooms. ▷ If nobody is in the room, it can lower the temperature and thus save further costs. ▷ Lighting only when people are present. ▷ Saves energy where it makes sense and switches off power-guzzling standby devices completely. Security ▷ Reliably detects water ingress and smoke. ▷ Warns of storms and raises the blinds for protection. ▷ Protects its residents against burglary with intelligent defence mechanisms. Comfort ▷ With just one click: When leaving the house, it uses text-to-speech to indicate any open windows, activates the alarm functions, switches off all the lighting and music and disconnects all power guzzlers from the network. ▷ Lighting: not only immerses the room in the desired lighting mood, but also serves as a signal transmitter, alarm function and automatically illuminates the way to the toilet with a soft light at night. Multiroom Audio ▷ Makes it possible to listen to the same or different music in every room. ▷ As an intelligent doorbell, an individual tone sounds in the room. A loud alarm tone, on the other hand, can be used to warn of danger timely. ▷ Text to speech function

As an AC coupled system, the FHP is compatible with most solar inverters of various types and brands in the market.

Franklin Home Power is designed as a power backup system for the whole home and is able to serve as a backup power supply for all home loads during the electricity outage period. These loads include the 120V loads, such as lamps, plugs and low-power home appliances, and 240V loads, such as air conditioners, electric cookers, pumps, EVs, clothes dryers, water heaters, and swimming pool pumps. The backup power capacity and runtime of your FHP system depend on how many aPower X units and power-consuming devices you have and the energy consumption pattern at your home.