I just read about this. It's apparently been a big thing in the EU, and
Utah just approved it for residential installations with "almost" no
permit requirements. A company (forget the name) is trying to get it
going in several municipalities around the SF Bay Area.
You just plug the whole thing into a dedicated circuit, and you have a
small-scale solar installation. Bada bing. Probably only good for a few
hundred watts, but the simple permitting eliminates the one big hurdle
for most solar installs.
The one thing I don't understand is it requires an "islanding device"
that prevents it from backfeeding onto the grid. What happens when the
islanding device fails? Does it have some kind of fail safe?
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