In ireland there is no payment for exported power and it is simple and easy to use this surplus to provide solar hot water.
Pv solar panels immersion heater.
Gem works with wind generation systems too.
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Hi experts i am planing to buy a 250 500 watt solar pv panel and connect it directly to my 2kw immersion heater attached to hot water cylinder without any.
You could in fact just connect the panels directly to the immersion heater supplying it with dc from the panels.
The advanced gem controller ensures maximum usage of pv power that would have been exported.
When the in house usage decreases even if only by a few watts solarimmersion will automatically increase the power to the immersion heater to use all the available surplus rather than the excess going back to the grid.
Immersion heaters powered by solar pv solar pv panels produce electricity from the sun.
It also requires a solar compatible hot water tank.
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A solar thermal system is another way of heating water with solar energy but is a separate technology and process to that of solar pv panels.
Modulation based solar pv surplus energy manager that monitors in house usage and pv power production to divert almost all the available surplus power to the immersion heater to heat water.
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Solar pv immersion heater controllers.
This proportional control technology makes the solarimmersion a highly efficient solar energy manager.
The system is simple to install and will not affect your feed in tariff payments if you have them.
Hot water from solar pv panels an obvious choice many households prefer not to export their surplus electricity to the grid.
These panels can be coupled with the immersion heater on the hot water tank to produce free hot water using a device known as a power diverter or solar pv optimiser.