So you wanna build a microgrid

[@michaelthunderosa]

Thank you for making this video. You've demystified a whole whack of things for me.

[@BhaveshKakwani]

I’ve worked on smart grid for 11 months but I understood more in just this one video 😂 Thanks a lot, great explanation and diagrams!!

[@RusNikita]

Thank you! Great and through video! Much appreciated since we are creating our own micro-grid

[@crazy9melon861]

I'm curious of how you connect the different homes with each other and their different circuits within. As your example mainly shows the PV.

[@SmartEnergyLab]

It's basically the same as a normal utiltiy grid. We have a grid forming three phase system that all the homes connect to as they would with poles and wires systems in a suburban street.

[@crazy9melon861]

​@@SmartEnergyLab I figured it would be similiar as such. For my internship, I'm currently planning an interconnection of two buildings that are both connected to the utility grid to form a microgrid and was interested in how you connect the buildings and how the connection would be secured. Thank you for your answer!

[@gabrielyzamany6355]

fantastic video thx

[@lukelane124]

If you were to reproduce a similar setup on the US grid what inverter setup would you use for the main grid former?

[@crazy9melon861]

What software did you use for making the drawings?

[@SmartEnergyLab]

It's an iPad app called simply "Paper"

[@michaelagnew7825]

worse case scenario, what would happen if ac wasn't synced with grid i.e. "2 phase"

[@SmartEnergyLab]

Hi Michael, not sure what you mean... any of the client inverters that are 4777.2 compliant automatically sync with the source. Unbalanced phases are not a show stopper.

[@michaelagnew7825]

@@SmartEnergyLab just thinking outside the box. what i meant was out of sync, imagine some idiot hooked up two generators and connected them parallel to a consumer unit

[@michaelagnew7825]

lol, sell all that gold around your neck and buy a Victron system

[@SmartEnergyLab]

I'm afraid the price of fake gold isn't that high... and we have many many Victron systems here at the Smart Energy Lab... just about to feature the Dream Team in a Toolbox TechTalk (Victron/Fronius/Redflow 3 phase system).

[@michaelagnew7825]

@@SmartEnergyLab great, looking forward to that