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Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them (www.npr.org)
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

These systems are designed to not push power back up if the grid goes down. In most areas, the municipality won't even allow a solar installation to be connected or even finished without it being inspected to verify you have that sort of setup.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    What system?

    My research shows theres no permitting required in Utah but please correct me if I'm wrong.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Did you respond to the wrong message? Nothing I said anything to do with Utah.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Did you respond to the wrong thread? Because the OP is about Utah.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The article clearly mentions California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming. Perhaps others that I missed as well. Your comment I replied to was not specific to a location, you said "it makes sense to me that consumers can’t be pumping energy into the grid with no way to cut it off" and I was letting you know that it shouldn't be a concern because that isn't how solar power systems work. Do you think that Utah will work different for some reason?

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  • [+] -6 points 8 months ago

    The article clearly mentions California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming.

    Those are potential future locations, not current ones. Any discussion around them would be purely hypothetical. I am discussing reality.

    that isn't how solar power systems work.

    Solar systems can work in any number of ways. That's why we have regulation, to ensure they do work in specific ways. Utah currently has no such regulation. It's "plug and play". People literally just buy them, hang them up, and plug them in.

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