[monkeydust]

Just be glad your not in the UK. I pay 35p / kWh down and get only 5p / kWh for excess I sell to grid through Smart Export Guarantee. Price down has doubled in two years and way up has hardly moved.

I joked with my neighbour that we should wire up our homes and sell my excess to him at mid point and we would both be better off.

[jacquesm]

> I joked with my neighbour that we should wire up our homes and sell my excess to him at mid point and we would both be better off.

I've been looking at this but not as a joke and you run into some fairly interesting problems when you start paralleling after the meter. Long story short: don't do this unless you have a lot of electrical engineering chops or you might end up create a liability in case of a leak to ground or an overcurrent situation. This needs some special handling. The best way would be to just create an extra circuit and use a waterproof extension cord to power it, that way all GFPs see their real current and not a fraction of it and you can't accidentally feed into a distribution panel at more current than the breakers see, which is an excellent way to start a fire.

[gnicholas]

Low-effort version, if he has an EV: get a long charging cable and charge him up when you're generating excess.

[monkeydust]

He doesn't but few on the street do. Could hack something over the summer that provides some charge on my driveway when I am net producing. Not sure if any legal/tax issues with the setup though. An interesting community project.

[reacharavindh]

It might even be a greater option to have a community battery booth(a bank of LFP or the upcoming Sodium ion batteries). Everyone throws their excess energy into it, and it can be a charging station for e-bikes, EVs etc.

Absolutely no clue about legal issues though.

[monkeydust]

Interesting, getting close to a virtual power plant I think. Ideally you want to use the grid network for transmission to the bank of batteries.

[kbob]

Or just let him park at your place.