Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US
brot@feddit.org 5 weeks agoNot so good - issue is that your “code” for electrical installations doesn’t include balcony solar and that your institutions are not able to include it because of reasons that do not make sense to anyone outside the USA
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Let me guess? Electric monopoly?
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, it’s electrical code. Standard outlets can’t be used to supply power because it means you have a plug that has exposed wires commonly called suicide wires. While these balconey top solar likely use grid following so it has to detect a grid voltage, the electrical code doesn’t consider it AFAIK.