I'll try to keep this short and to the point. I'm starting up a company that'll revolve around renewable energy (making a indiegogo site for this soon too once I get the 'idea' protected somehow). I have been able to find a bunch of information and what nat but there's one thing that I have literally no experience in nor am I even sure where and what to look for.
I'm in need of some company/factory/something that can produce 'grid tie inverters' (and maybe a few other things too) with rather special and specific specs and requirements.
My question to you is do you have any experience with things like this or do you have any clue or advice on where and who to talk with?
Jul 13, 2020 04:24 AM
(This post was last modified: Jul 13, 2020 04:26 AM by Maxie.)
I currently work for two solar energy companies (one who sells to companies and a company which is going to start a franchise) as a developer, the brands of inverters they supply are SolarEdge, Growatt, GoodWe, Huawei and FerroAmp. I suppose those companies would be the first to speak to.
I also have quite a lacking experience in what everything is or means, and the term grid tie is new to me (we mainly talk Swedish so it might also be a language barrier).
(Jul 13, 2020 04:24 AM)Maxie Wrote: I currently work for two solar energy companies (one who sells to companies and a company which is going to start a franchise) as a developer, the brands of inverters they supply are SolarEdge, Growatt, GoodWe, Huawei and FerroAmp. I suppose those companies would be the first to speak to.
I also have quite a lacking experience in what everything is or means, and the term grid tie is new to me (we mainly talk Swedish so it might also be a language barrier).
Swedish is what I speak with my friends too but basically what a grid tie thingy is, well, it's the thing that comes between the solar panels and the power meter in your house, it's the thing that allows you to feed power back to the grid. The thing is that it needs to be able to charge batteries (with either grid or solar or wind power), push power back to the grid and a few other things...I'm slowly trying to work out what would be the ideal features and functions and once that's done I'll try to get a prototype or two and file a patent.
The only thing restricting my progression speed right now is lack of funding xD
(Jul 13, 2020 04:32 AM)HOMODIN Wrote: Swedish is what I speak with my friends too but basically what a grid tie thingy is, well, it's the thing that comes between the solar panels and the power meter in your house, it's the thing that allows you to feed power back to the grid. The thing is that it needs to be able to charge batteries (with either grid or solar or wind power), push power back to the grid and a few other things...I'm slowly trying to work out what would be the ideal features and functions and once that's done I'll try to get a prototype or two and file a patent.
The only thing restricting my progression speed right now is lack of funding xD
Now I totally lack insight, but I know the company which I work for (the one who sells solar panel plants) offers installations of batteries as well, which are connected to the grid. They use SolarEdge inverters.
(Jul 13, 2020 04:37 AM)Maxie Wrote: Now I totally lack insight, but I know the company which I work for (the one who sells solar panel plants) offers installations of batteries as well, which are connected to the grid. They use SolarEdge inverters.
Thanks mate, that already gave me a name and gonna see if I could work something out with them too. However the thing is that if I go with my idea to a company then they can pretty much hijack it since as it stands now I have no protection what so ever. The patent costs a small fortune x___x
Most of the stuff that they have listed on their site has a IP65 rating, I would need that to be IP66 which I guess shouldn't be an issue for them :)
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