On the 30th of Sept 2011 I drove down from Bangkok with a team of technicians from Annex Power to install a 20 kWp rooftop PV system on a luxury villa in Phuket, Thailand.
The owner wanted to make a statement and make the villa 'eco-neutral'.
We had designed a simple custom-made aluminium mounting structure to keep the profile as low as possible, in order keep visibility of the PV modules to a minimum.
The system is grid-connected through 2 SMA Tripower 3-phase inverters, each 12 kW.
Due to rain the installation took 2 days longer than expected, but after 8 days the system went online and started producing solar power.
On the very first day the system produced 100 kWh and made the kWh meter of the house run backwards!
The owner wanted to make a statement and make the villa 'eco-neutral'.
We had designed a simple custom-made aluminium mounting structure to keep the profile as low as possible, in order keep visibility of the PV modules to a minimum.
The system is grid-connected through 2 SMA Tripower 3-phase inverters, each 12 kW.
Due to rain the installation took 2 days longer than expected, but after 8 days the system went online and started producing solar power.
On the very first day the system produced 100 kWh and made the kWh meter of the house run backwards!
