Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The PRODUCT is designed to stop feeding OUT the plug if it doesn’t detect VOLTAGE from the socket. AC is alternating current so it pulses on and off so the solar system is doing the same. It’s turning on and off quickly and seeing if it gets power back and if it detects no power incoming it shuts off the power from the solar. It’s quite simple and ingenious.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ok I have to believe the guy replying is a shil at this point. Use of approved products is as old as the electric stystem. Its why the electric company does not have to come and inspect everything you have plugged into the grid and does not come out every time you get a new appliance. The standards are with the product as you correctly point out and the state does not allow on compliant products to be sold just like with refrigerators.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have to believe the guy replying is a shil at this point

      A shill for what, exactly? Linemen safety? The horror.

      Its why the electric company…does not come out every time you get a new appliance.

      That’s because your appliances aren’t backfeeding to the grid. Anything that does requires inspections and permits.

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        but the edge case you give has nothing to do with feeding back to the grid given it was already pointed out they auto shut off which regulated by whats allowed to be sold because anyone could put a non legal thing that feeds energy into the grid even if they jury rigged it themself.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am not asking how the technology works. I am asking how the utility verifies that people are using compliant products.

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The same way they do now.

      You realize generators exist right?

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So they don’t, is what you’re saying?

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    • WesternInfidels@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “The utility” has never had a way to prevent you from doing something dangerous with your wiring or with the electricity they send you. The best we’ve managed has been to encourage appliance manufacturers to design their products with safety in mind, through the UL program (which is voluntary). This is why the writer talked to the “vice president of engineering at UL Solutions.”

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “The utility” has never had a way to prevent you from doing something dangerous with your wiring

        Yes they have. It’s called permitting.

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