I’m starting to think about diversifying my energy prodution. I have a solar panel array (5kWp) on the roof for a year now. I see that adding more panels does not make much sense as the production in summer as is is already hard to consume it all, and in winter the production is rather symbolic while consumption is through the roof.

So I thought of looking into wind turbines. There is plenty of wind the whole year where I live. But, rather then buying a big 5kW turbine which is quite expensive on its own (plus a pole and all the other stuff) I thought, how about using multiple small turbines (up to 1kW) connected together, similar to how solar panels are. Either into one inverter or using microinverters. Does anyone have any interesting links to follow or some experience in similar setups?

  • perestroika@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    Regarding the connection scheme - I have not come across wind power inverters with multiple inputs. I think they are rare.

    I think people solve the problem of multiple generators either with:

    • parallel inverters, coordinated among each other (with one inverter or an external controller acting as a coordinator)
    • parallel inverters, uncoordinated (each inverter only syncs to the grid frequency and dumps load independently)
    • with a battery buffer, so there are parallel chargers but a single inverter

    Basing on intuition, I would pick the latter option. I think it might result in a less complex system.