Post #1701940
2026-04-26 08:50 UTC
@Andii @pluralistic You sometimes see this sort of arrangement with people building off-grid cabins and the like. They'll have multiple arrays of solar panels oriented differently feeding into their battery banks, so that their banks begin recharging as early in the day as possible after their battery banks have gotten low from running their heat pumps, refrigerators, hot water heaters, etc. overnight.
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@Infoseepage@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 08:50
@Andii @pluralistic There's no reason that you can't do this sort of thing at an industrial scale, creating more green power availability early and late in the day.
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@clanger9@mastodon.online 2026-04-26 10:11
This. I have East-West panels on my modest, Northern hemisphere installation, and they produce power for much longer than a South facing setup would ☀️
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@ingram@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 10:11
@Infoseepage @Andii @pluralistic Just make sure you have separate maximum power point trackers for each orientation of panels. Over-provisioning panels and optimising for late afternoon is starting to be done more widely in Australia. A 5kW inverter can generally have around 6kW of panels connected as standard.