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Balcony solar is all the rage in Germany. Why not in the US?
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... Was there no expert on the topic to tell them how it al worked or...?
They're worried about power feeding back into a "dead" grid while they're trying to work on it.
Typical solar installations either shut down when the power goes out or you have a battery/expensive switch that automatically disconnects you from the grid when the external power goes down.
The switch is expensive enough that it's usually not done without a battery.
Exactly my point. An expert would tell them thats not how it works at all. Never would it feed back to a dead grid. The rest of the world figured that one out ages ago...