Can renewable energy be used to power a ship with onshore safety considerations?

[zsanz]

Inverter help ! Regeneration

Im a current mechanical engineering student working on a project that utilizes solar panels and a wind helix.

We will have roughly 50kW of electricity coming in from the solar and wind systems on the roof. That will then be sent to a SatCon Grid Tied 480VAC 60Hz 3 phase inverter (Here is the link http://www.solarelectricsupply.com/Inverters/satcon/powergate-plus-50kw.html) . The goal is to have the building use as much energy it needs at the current time to stay in operation then, the excess power generated would need to be fed back into the ship to compliment the power demands of the ship itself.

As far as the ship, it has ConEd power at the dock and onboard the ship they have a transformer room that takes the ConEd power and transforms it to three phase 460 power.

The overall goal is to use the excess power generated by the renewable systems on the building in the rest of the ship to power things that may have been powered by the ConEd power. Also the building will have both 110 and 220 equipment running in there.

How do we accomplish this ?


anything to lead me in the correct direction would be greatly appreciated !

 

[anorlunda]

Yes that can certainly be done. However, to prevent safety problems onshore, the local utility ConEd will have strict requirements. If you move the ship to other ports, the requirements may change, so I recommend that the grid interface hardware should be shore-based, not on-board.

I can't give you ConEd's specific requirements. Contact ConEd. They may even insist on supplying the interface hardware and doing the installation themselves.