If you use a milking parlour, you'll have two distinct peak times for your energy consumption each day: morning and early evening. Outside of these peak times, you'll also use electricity for cooling, cleaning, and other everyday tasks. Your consumption remains fairly consistent throughout the year. If you have solar panels, you'll generate a small portion of your own energy.
The wind, just like your energy consumption, is a constant presence year-round. This makes it a better fit than solar. With wind energy, you can use a much larger portion of the generated power directly on your property. The result: you are largely energy self-sufficient.
The cattle are milked twice a day, so your consumption skyrockets in the morning and early evening. The peak demand for solar panels is the opposite, meaning you primarily feed back into the grid.
Wind energy generates energy for you all day and night.
This is what it looks like:
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Milking is a year-round activity, so you want to be able to provide yourself with energy consistently. That's not possible with solar panels alone. You need wind power for that. This provides you with continuous energy, especially in the fall and winter. In the summer, you can supplement this with solar panels.
This graph shows how it looks.
"We're now more than self-sufficient, and the turbines are performing well. Without a reverse meter, we'll also have to consider solar panels and energy storage. That's why Ecoways has already started measuring our energy consumption."
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