Solar Electricity

My Retirement Village is switching to solar power. Applications have gone
in, but I don't know when it will happen. Excess solar power will be fed
back to the grid.

I missed the residents' info session, and my questions would have been too
technical, anyway. I really have only two at this stage:

a) In the specifications, the details for a battery were blank. Could that
be right? Some details were omitted if standard, but these specs are to
support a Government grant. Perhaps we use the grid when the panels don't
output enough, but I would have expected a battery to even out short-term
fluctuations, e.g. when a cloud passes the sun.

b) Is my computer likely to be affected? It is a tower with a standard
switch-mode PSU. Only a model number for the inverter is given, but with
only one in the house, it would have to be suitable for everything, so I
would expect it to be sine-wave.

Doug.
--
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
--Dale Carnegie.


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