IronMan_74
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Hello everyone! I recently started looking into and researching all things solar as I'm thinking about adding a solar system to my house. I've been reading/watching everything I can find for the past week and am starting to put the pieces together. One thing I'm not clear on though is the Grid-tie hook-up and more specifically how it would work in my situation. So wanted to ask for some help/feedback here before I go digging much further to make sure I can accomplish what I want to.
First a little background. My main goal is not to go completely off grid or even size the system to replace most of our usage, just looking to offset some electricity costs with solar. I have a shed that we built last year for our pool equipment. My wife doesn't want solar panels on the roof of our house but might be OK with them on the pool shed roof. the side of shed roof facing south is about 34 feet long and 11 feet tall. I estimate I could fit anywhere from 10 to 12 ~350 to ~430 watt panels on it or somewhere around 4kw of solar production. When we installed all of the equipment and everything for the pool we ran a subpanel out to the shed that's hooked up to a 50 amp breaker in the main panel. Inside the subpanel there are a few different breakers for the pool equipment as well as LED lighting around the shed. I also recently installed 2 20 amp breakers for crypto mining equipment but am only using 1 of the 20 amp breakers currently (and its maxed at 80% load 24/7).
So knowing that's the space I have to work with and that I would want to keep all solar related equipment installed in/on the shed, would I even be able to tie into the grid at that subpanel? And if not, is there anything i could "upgrade" to make that possible?
Thanks for the help!
First a little background. My main goal is not to go completely off grid or even size the system to replace most of our usage, just looking to offset some electricity costs with solar. I have a shed that we built last year for our pool equipment. My wife doesn't want solar panels on the roof of our house but might be OK with them on the pool shed roof. the side of shed roof facing south is about 34 feet long and 11 feet tall. I estimate I could fit anywhere from 10 to 12 ~350 to ~430 watt panels on it or somewhere around 4kw of solar production. When we installed all of the equipment and everything for the pool we ran a subpanel out to the shed that's hooked up to a 50 amp breaker in the main panel. Inside the subpanel there are a few different breakers for the pool equipment as well as LED lighting around the shed. I also recently installed 2 20 amp breakers for crypto mining equipment but am only using 1 of the 20 amp breakers currently (and its maxed at 80% load 24/7).
So knowing that's the space I have to work with and that I would want to keep all solar related equipment installed in/on the shed, would I even be able to tie into the grid at that subpanel? And if not, is there anything i could "upgrade" to make that possible?
Thanks for the help!