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What happens to excess PV, without an export meter

Calahonda52 · 2021-05-19 17:08:50

So if PV output exceed demand in a building, and there is no export meter, just a digital one, what happens the excess power? If it was a an old meter would the wheel go backward? :D

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19-05-2021 6:08pm

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So if PV output exceed demand in a building, and there is no export meter, just a digital one, what happens the excess power?

If it was a an old meter would the wheel go backward?

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#2 19-05-2021 6:12pm
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Calahonda52 wrote: »

So if PV output exceed demand in a building, and there is no export meter, just a digital one, what happens the excess power?

If it was a an old meter would the wheel go backward?

Just goes back out to the grid.

Some really old meters go backwards but not all

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