COSTA RICA SOLAR SOLUTIONS
Our Solutions
Costa Rica Solar Solutions provides affordable, high quality clean energy solutions to residential and commercial clients. With offices in the central valley, the central Pacific coast and Guanacaste, we have extensive experience providing high quality solar equipment and service to residential and commercial clients all over Costa Rica. The solutions we offer are tailored individually for each of our clients, in order to satisfy their specific needs.
Grid Tied Solar System
A Grid Tied Solar System allows our customers to benefit from the energy of the Sun, while keeping their connection and use of the traditional electric grid. This allows them to use solar energy when available, thus saving money on their electrical bill.
Solar radiation from the Sun is captured by solar panels, which produce PV electricity and send it to the inverter. The inverter converts the PV electricity (DC, or direct current) to AC (alternating current) electricity. AC electricity is passed to the home’s breaker box and then to household outlets and appliances. When the solar system produces more than 100% of the energy needs, it will send electricity back into the grid, and the electricity provider will bank that energy for future use, this is known as net metering.
In Costa Rica, the policies are changing from a Distributed Generator Presidential decree to a national Distributed Generator Law which was signed and published as of January 2022. Please follow us to keep updated on the progress of regulations for the law.
Two options to consider is injecting energy into the grid and using the permitting process and policy or not ejecting into the grid (running parallel) and using energy storage for the night time consumption.
We also offer the option of adding battery storage, to further decrease the cost of the electrical bill and energy security.
Products Used: Option 1 SolarEdge system SolarEdge Inverters & Power Optimizers, Canadian Solar, JA, Trina and many other Tier 1 panels & LG Energy 10kw and 16kw Prime Lithium Ion Batteries Option 2 Sol Ark System Sol Ark, Canadian Solar, JA, Trina and many other Tier 1 panels , Fortress Lithium Ion Batteries Option 3 Generac Power Cell Solar System Generac PWR Cell system, Canadian Solar, JA, Trina and many other Tier 1 panels , Generac Power Systems – Clean Energy.
Off-Grid Solar System
An Off-Grid Solar System suits our customers in remote locations, too far away or too embedded in nature to have access to the electrical grid. This system consists of both a photo-voltaic system and a battery storage bank (several batteries in series).
The size of the storage bank is determined by the load requirements of each system, but it is normally recommended to have a battery bank big enough to provide 1-2 days of power in the event of no sun.
The stored energy is then sent to an Outback Power inverter that converts the energy from direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC). The inverter sends that AC electricity to the breaker box in your home, which provide the electricity to power your household outlets, lights and appliances.
Products: Trojan batteries, Outback Power inverter.
Off-Grid Solar System
An Off-Grid Solar System suits our customers in remote locations, too far away or too embedded in nature to have access to the electrical grid. This system consists of both a photo-voltaic system and a battery storage bank (several batteries in series).
The size of the storage bank is determined by the load requirements of each system, but it is normally recommended to have a battery bank big enough to provide 1-2 days of power in the event of no sun.
The stored energy is then sent to an off grid inverter that converts the energy from direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC). The inverter sends that AC electricity to the breaker box in your home, which provide the electricity to power your household outlets, lights and appliances.
Products: Option 1 Sol Ark off Grid system, Sol Ark Inverter, Canadian Solar, JA, Trina and many other Tier 1 panels, Fortress Lithium Ion Batteries. Option 2 Trojan batteries, Outback Power inverter.
Energy Storage
Energy Storage allows our customers to save solar energy for later use, whether that be during a power outage or simply to be used later on the day, when grid electricity increases in price. Many clients energy security is important for their home offices, this is becoming the number one reason for purchasing energy storage in Costa Rica. This is a great add-on for customers using a Grid Tied Solar System.
In the case of a power outage, the switch from the grid to battery is seamless. Even further, our systems allows our customers to schedule the times of the day the system should turn to battery use, thus facilitating daily electrical energy savings in an automatic way.
Products: Option 1 SolarEdge battery backup, Option 2 Sol Ark with Fortress batteries, Option 3 Generac Pwr Cell.
Solar Water Pumps
Water Pumps are a great way to reduce the cost of the electrical bill for our customers. We offer both pool and well pumps, either submersible or non-submersible for pumping water from a water tank for example to increase water pressure.
Solar pool pumps are solar direct which means their circulation speed depends on the amount of sunlight available. They rely on only solar panels and a pump controller to maximize the pump performance and provide safety mechanisms. The system works usually by connecting 2 to 6 solar panels together (depending on how much water turnover you need) and running them to the controller, which boosts the current to maximize pump performance
Products: SunPumps
Solar Water Pumps
Water Pumps are a great way to reduce the cost of the electrical bill for our customers. We offer both pool and well pumps, either submersible or non-submersible for pumping water from a water tank for example to increase water pressure.
Solar pool pumps are solar direct which means their circulation speed depends on the amount of sunlight available. They rely on only solar panels and a pump controller to maximize the pump performance and provide safety mechanisms. The system works usually by connecting 2 to 6 solar panels together (depending on how much water turnover you need) and running them to the controller, which boosts the current to maximize pump performance
Products: SunPumps
System Monitoring
There are many of different types of monitoring systems that monitor different variables such as Production of solar, Consumption of customers energy, Self Consumption of the solar system directly to the consumption of customers energy.
Monitoring consumption and solar system’s performance allows our customers, and our company, to improve each system’s performance, assure the yield of the system, maximize solar power harvesting and reduce maintenance costs by increasing system up-time and resolving faults more effectively. This feature is included for both grid-tied and off-grid systems.
Stand alone monitoring systems help clients view where their consumption is being used and is important to find out how to adjust consumption patterns and make informed decisions.
Costa Rica Solar Solutions has become a energy manager for our clients to help them lower their energy bills.
Products SolarEdge, eGuage, Curb, Sense
Products: SolarEdge Monitoring , eGuage Metering system, Energy Solutions Curb Energy monitoring, Sense Monitoring system.
Electrical Vehicle Charger
The Electrical Vehicle Charger is a great add-on for our customers, owners of either a grid-tied or off-grid solar system. Our EV Charger enables homeowners to charge their electric vehicles directly from the power of the sun, maximizing their solar usage and further reducing their electricity bills. They also benefit from the ability to charge EVs up to 2.5 times faster than a standard EV charger.
We facilitate for our customers the world’s first EV charging inverter. This product eliminates the need for additional wiring, conduit and a breaker installation. By installing an EV charger that is integrated with an inverter, an additional dedicated circuit breaker is not needed, saving space and eliminating a potential main distribution panel upgrade.
Products: EV Charging Single Phase Inverter
Electrical Vehicle Charger
The Electrical Vehicle Charger is a great add-on for our customers, owners of either a grid-tied or off-grid solar system. Our EV Charger enables homeowners to charge their electric vehicles directly from the power of the sun, maximizing their solar usage and further reducing their electricity bills. They also benefit from the ability to charge EVs up to 2.5 times faster than a standard EV charger.
We facilitate for our customers the world’s first EV charging inverter. This product eliminates the need for additional wiring, conduit and a breaker installation. By installing an EV charger that is integrated with an inverter, an additional dedicated circuit breaker is not needed, saving space and eliminating a potential main distribution panel upgrade.
Products: EV Charging Single Phase Inverter
What Our Clients Say
We decided to invest in solar energy for a couple reasons. One was, the project that we have going on our property, we’re trying to do things in a more sustainable way. The solar energy really fit in with the whole project.
The investment in the battery was important for us to have a backup source of energy during power outages, which we have on average about once a week. The potential for losing product is very high. One of the things that is amazing is they are able to monitor our system to see how much we are producing & exporting to the grid and they can remotely make adjustments to our system.
So happy with our decision to install a solar system using Costa Rica Solar Solutions. They are professional, knowledgeable, reasonable and follow up with their services. Don’t wait….sign up and start saving lots of money like we are!
Lester’s Costa Rica Solar Solutions team successfully installed solar panels on my home and provided ongoing support long after the install, answering questions and assisting on navigating through ICE with meter changes etc. On an important investment like this I can recommend Lester and his company to follow through on what they say they will do.
The system sells itself – it’s hard to find an investment that saves you money immediately and you get back your investment so quickly. The ROI makes installing the system an easy decision. Costa Rica Solar Solutions’ service has been excellent – the system and permitting was completed as per the agreement and everything has been running well. The one service issue we had was fixed promptly and Lester got the system back up and running immediately. Lester provides excellent service and value for solar projects in Costa Rica.