Ok so I am building a new-build that is going to have 400 amp service. It’s rural with well water, and is 400 amp because I going to have a woodshop and generally am looking to electrify as much as I can. It’s 6000 sq feet heated with a separate garage and shop for another 1700 sq feet, half of which might be cooled as comfort requires.
Anyway - I am looking to put in a 10KW array of solar - which is what Georgia allows for homeowner interconnections.
I don’t intend to run a full load on backup and am primarily looking to maintain refrigeration, some lights and maybe some light hvac. Def would not exceed 200 amps.
The panels are going on the garage so putting the inverter there and associated solar equipment as that makes sense to me. A lot of inverters or MID seem to be limited to a 200 amp pass thru so the idea here to have the solar equipment on one side of the 200/400 service and then if the grid is down, limit backup loads to 200 amps across the house and the garage. Using the generator to run the HVAC and when the induction cooktop might be running.. (36” - rated for 11kw full burn).
Before I waste a lot of intellectual horse power filling out the details, I want to know if, in the broad strokes, this is possible.
Thank you for your thoughts.
