OT: Ping EE's: Connecting to The Grid

Proctologically ViolatedÂ©Â® · 2009-05-04T17:05:19+00:00

Awl -- Suppose I have my own home-grown generator -- wind, solar, etc -- that I want to connect to The Grid.The first problem I see is voltage regulation, shunt current: To feed the grid, you have to be at some voltage above grid voltage.How do you dump all your current capacity to grid, without possibly over-volting the grid locally?And, if just incrementally above grid voltage, how do dump all your current capacity to the grid, without having to lose it to a shunt? Does a voltage regulator solve this, or does it still bleed excess off to shunt -- or to a battery pack?Even more of a problem would seem to be phase, discussed in Wow....So connecting to the grid is not a trivial matter, not DIY stuff, it appears.Unless grid voltage regulators/synchroscopes are standard market items.How does one do this? Idears? Links? ngs?All these commercially provided windmill generators must have their own syncroscopes/regulators?Mebbe Edison was right: Shoulda stuck with DC?Also, if what I read recently is correct, it seems that that very high-voltage long distance transmission is actually more efficient with DC!And now that there are solid state inverters, a DC-based grid might be feasible.With zillions of DC inputs to a DC grid, all the ripple (inherent in rotary-type systems), would statistically average out to a fairly straight line, for even better DC!!Until recently, poss. even still today, Con Ed in NYC provided high-power DC, for things like elevators, etc. in some older buildings/locations. Man, what a spark!But you never see DC in anything constructed new, after the '60s, poss. earlier.