MyEnergy Engineering
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The Barossa Valley is one of South Australia’s best-known wine regions, with vineyards and rural properties extending well beyond its main townships. While grid power is readily available throughout the region’s towns, connecting rural vineyard infrastructure to the grid can come with significant connection costs.
Powering a Working Vineyard
For this Barossa Valley vineyard, the challenge was powering an agricultural shed with a reliable standalone system. Vineyard operations can place varying demands on power throughout the year, from workshop equipment and refrigeration to lighting and general shed loads.
DC-Coupled Off Grid Power System
MyEnergy designed a single-phase 10kVA DC-coupled off grid power system remotely, before building and testing it at MyEnergy HQ within a vermin and weatherproof aluminium cabinet. The complete system was then transported to the Vineyard for a streamlined installation on site. The system combines 9.5kW of solar with 40.96kWh of battery storage, including 20 × 475W panels installed on the shed roof using the Schletter roof mounting system and DC-coupled through a Victron SmartSolar charge controller.
A Victron MultiPlus-II 48/10000/140-100 provides 10kVA of single-phase inverter capacity, with a Victron Cerbo GX and touchscreen providing system monitoring and remote access through Victron Remote Management (VRM).
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Reliable Off Grid Power in the Barossa Valley
With 9.5kW of solar, 40.96kWh of battery storage and 10kVA of single-phase inverter capacity, this system was expertly tailored to the specific power requirements of this Barossa Valley vineyard. Backed by MyEnergy’s award-winning work in agricultural power systems, the project was planned remotely before the complete system was built and tested at MyEnergy HQ, reducing onsite work and allowing for a streamlined installation that delivered reliable off-grid power from day one.
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