Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
artyom@piefed.social 11 hours agoBy “you” I did not mean your personal solar system. I mean how does the utility know that other users that have systems connected are doing so safely?
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 10 hours 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.
HubertManne@piefed.social 9 hours 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.
artyom@piefed.social 10 hours ago
I am not asking how the technology works. I am asking how the utility verifies that people are using compliant products.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The same way they do now.
You realize generators exist right?
artyom@piefed.social 10 hours ago
So they don’t, is what you’re saying?
WesternInfidels@feddit.online 10 hours 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.”
artyom@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Yes they have. It’s called permitting.