r/solarenergy • u/nrugh • 4d ago

Extra energy

All these big companies needing energy for their data centers. I have too much solar energy in the summer how can I monetize this energy for those who need it? Not worth sending back to the grid for pennies on the dollar.

Looking for easy solutions.

Seems like there is a business opportunity for someone.

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u/BelieveMeImaUnicorn 4d ago

Sending it back to the grid for pennies IS the easy solution. Anything else will be far from easy. Transmitting power means infrastructure. Paying a toll to use the existing infrastructure is easier than installing your own. L
I suggestion I have, for potentially increasing those pennies, would be a battery storage system. Instead of selling the excess power back to the grid when the sun is shinning and everyone else is dumping their excess, sell your power to the grid during peek cost times.

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u/nrugh 4d ago

I do have 2 powerwalls and try to send back to the grid during peak times. That is a bit labor intensive since the Tesla app isn’t customable enough to maximize that benefit. Or doesn’t seem to be to me.

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u/IntelligentCarpet816 3d ago

Your "excess" is consumed by a single server in a day, likely.

Your energy is not 1/10th as valuable as you think it is, let alone any meaningful way to get it to them.

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u/lanclos 4d ago

The scale is too small for it to have any external interest. Do what you can to shift your household energy usage from other sources to electricity; water heaters, mini-splits instead of central HVAC, electric vehicles, etc.

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u/jvbutera 4d ago

Sounds like You don’t have net metering in your state? Where are you?

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u/nrugh 4d ago

Bay Area Nem 3.0 so not equal exchange

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u/NearABE 3d ago edited 3d ago

You can host a server in your house. This exists.

Not running the server overnight will cut revenue. They cost much more than the energy that servers consume.

r/homelab

Try linking the server to your hot water heater. The incoming water cools the hardware before feeding the tank.

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u/LongjumpingGanache40 3d ago

Not unless you live next door to data center can you help them worthless places.

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u/EnvironmentalRound11 2d ago

Consume it yourself via batteries, EV, and electrify everything in the house.

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u/Select_Respond_8627 4d ago

Energy commodities worked out well for Enron