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by cyri 387 days ago
Of course it is a bit oversized.

We’re living in a big river valley where we have fog from October until March. On some days in November the fog is so dense that the whole system does not produce any kind of energy. On the other days the produced kWh are enough to charge the battery.

We have a heat pump (extrem efficient), servers, one electric car, etc which consumes all together around 13MWh per year. The solar system produces around 27.5MWh. Most of the energy gets fed back into the grid.

We’re currently investigating to connect the neighbour houses physically to us. But that takes even more time here :-(

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FYI: Neighborhood-level connections are changing starting next January (look up RCP and CEL).
They're in Switzerland.
Yes, how neighborhood-level connections are setup in Switzerland is changing next year.

See eg https://www.swissolar.ch/fr/connaissances/nouvelle-loi-sur-l... (post written in French)