Solar generator makes the impossible possible

A balcony power plant actually works in a closed circuit and only works in a certain way: Produced electricity is used directly and the surplus is given away to the grid operator. You can avoid this with a solar generator.

Equip a balcony power station with a battery

A plug-in mini solar system is actually not intended to store the electricity produced. In the classic sense, this cannot be changed at all, because this is the only way to get approval from the network operator. Yet there is a small detour, how you don’t give away the too much electricity produced. To do this, you can use a battery known as a solar generator or power station. The balcony power plant remains untouched and does its work as usual. With the power station, you only ensure that you temporarily store the excess electricity produced.

A solar generator can do that too can be charged in the classic way via a socket. The power supply gets the energy easily from any socket in the household, which is supplied with energy via the balcony power plant. Ideally, your 600-watt mini solar system will produce a lot of energy that you don’t use anywhere else. Instead of feeding them in and giving them away, you can simply pick them up with the power station. The solar generator is then just an additional consumer that you feed with solar energy instead of giving it to the electricity provider.

Is it even worth it?

My balcony power plant produces on sunny days up to 3 kWh, which I don’t use completely, although I work in the home office and my PC runs all day. The fridge and other consumers don’t use all of the energy either, and the dishwasher or washing machine only run once a week. So I give away energy regularly. I could save that without much effort.

Depending on the solar generator, the power pack has a certain power. For example, if that is 200 watts, then on sunny days the power station simply draws energy into the battery with the power that I would otherwise have wasted. I can then use the stored energy, for example, to charge mobile phones, tablets, laptops or to operate the PC with a monitor when the sun is no longer shining.

You can store excess energy from your balcony power plant in such a solar generator:

But all this is only worthwhile on really sunny days, when a lot of energy is generated. Not in autumn and winter, because then you would draw the expensive electricity from the socket of your network operator and not from the balcony power plant. In addition, the power pack must not be too powerful because there are consumers in the household. A solar generator with a 1kWh battery or slightly smaller would probably be perfect (view at Amazon). My PC with the monitor consumes about 100 to 120 watts per hour. So I would get through a working day with it if the battery was full. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but will do so next year. Then I can also share my practical experience with you.