I just had solar installed at my property and am producing more than I can store in the grid (rural lines restricting how many kW).
I was considering picking up an old leaf (or 2) as some buffer storage, so I can continue to feed excess energy into the grid during low solar periods.
Does anyone have experience of using a leaf in this way? Anything I should look out for when sourcing one?
Not sure if the leaf is what you are looking for. Look for ev's with vehicle-to-home or vehicle-to-grid as a feature.
V2H coupled with the right "onshore" hardware is exactly what you want: the car battery is connected to your home grid, and the ev battery works in tandem with your home ESS batteries.
I was surprised to find the leaf has actually supported bidirectional charging since its initial release, hence the choice as they are crazy inexpensive.
I’m assuming would need a bit more hardware to coordinate when and how fast it should charge and the feed into the grid, so it wouldn’t try and charge from the grid (only the solar) and it wouldn’t feed more than is permitted into the grid.
I was considering picking up an old leaf (or 2) as some buffer storage, so I can continue to feed excess energy into the grid during low solar periods.
Does anyone have experience of using a leaf in this way? Anything I should look out for when sourcing one?