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Does Texas allow home owners to push power back onto the grid? I know this is common in some places, particularly for solar, but is that a thing in Texas? The
by mbreese 6y ago
Does Texas allow home owners to push power back onto the grid? I know this is common in some places, particularly for solar, but is that a thing in Texas?
The cost of the equipment to allow customers to sell energy back onto the grid has got to be far more expensive than the savings from adding an individual 9.5 kW system. Particularly a gas powered system that won’t be consistently available.
- barbacoa 6y agoIf you tried to feedback to the grid you would need a generator that can phase match the grid power. Don't imagine any residential grade generators that are rated to do that. Plugging a regular generator into your house grid with the power on would cause very bad things to happen as you have 2 high power electrical waves fight one another and would burn down your house in quick order.
- mbreese 6y agoThere are systems that do allow for this, but the most common case I've seen has been residential solar. I personally doubt that this would be possible for a normal gas generator to work this way -- particularly as you said because the waves would never be in sync. At least with a solar system, you're already phase-matching the incoming AC, so could push power out at the correct phase.