How to arrange electricity generation at home?

Question

Electronics

Let's say I want to generate electricity at home and supply it to the grid - for example, attach a dynamo to a hamster wheel, or to an exercise bike. In electrical engineering, I'm at the high school level, and I believe that if you just plug a dynamo into a socket, it will work like an electric motor and spin hamsters, when I would like it the other way around.
1) How to connect an in-house source of electricity to the network so that at least in-house consumers, as far as possible, are powered from it, and not from an external network?
2) Is it possible to generate more electricity than is consumed inside the house, and supply the surplus to the external network?
3) Will the meter spin back and reduce my debt to the electric company?

Answer 1

The device that fulfills your needs is used with solar panels and is called a grid inverter .
Does not work with all counters. Yes, and there are enough questions of the legitimacy of such schemes, I don’t know for sure, but it seems that in the Russian Federation, for example, there is no provision / purchase for receiving electricity from the population.

Answer 2

and I believe that if you just plug the dynamo into a socket, then it will work like an electric motor, and spin the hamsters, while I would like it the other way around.

This school performance of yours is so simplistic it's practically meaningless. And here are the answers:
1. First, estimate the needs of in-house consumers (usually these are kilowatts, and tens of kilowatts are possible at the peak of consumption in a fairly large house) and the performance of an in-house source. Such a source is by no means reducible to the dynamo alone, and in the aggregate of all its constituent parts turns out to be very expensive. True, after its launch, it begins to provide savings, and after resolving the issue of transferring electricity to an external network, it can even generate income (rotating the meter back is what it is), but this is a separate issue.
2 and 3. Yes, it is possible, and in many European countries it is not difficult to implement it both technically and legally. We do n't have, and I knowingly mentioned the lawyer. The fact is that you will then have to register (and, moreover, get certified!) as an electricity producer. I talked to people who tried to at least delve into this matter - they said that after learning how many instances you need to go through, they in horror abandoned any thoughts about this undertaking. So wait until we change the legislation to be more liberal in relation to ordinary people - there is an opinion that it will not be long to wait.

Answer 3

it will not work - there are a lot of bureaucratic barriers for certification, launching energy generation facilities, without which you will not be connected to the network, there are hundreds of requirements that you are guaranteed to never be able to fulfill in your life. To ensure that no wise men ever get into this monopoly business.

Answer 4

I believe that the dimensions of the generator will be higher than those provided for by the living area, to compensate for the costs.
As for paying off the debt through processing, alas, it is not feasible in Russia. IMHO

Answer 5

The simplest solution is to connect some individual consumers (for example, a refrigerator) not to the network, but to its own source. With storage (UPS) in the middle.
As for "supplying the surplus to the grid" - I don't think that the current level of technology will allow a private household to generate more than it consumes. This is a mini hydro station