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Re:Florida Power and Light: Regulations for home solar insta... by dogma1138 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:26AM (#15283596)
The same regulations exist in Germany also there is no way around them, in the UK if you want to either backfeed or connect a solar (or any other power source ) installation directly to your house mains you have to tick a ton of boxes including giving the power company control over the feed (basically when they shut down the power they also shut you down).

If you have a completely segregated solar installation no one cares.

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Re:Florida Power and Light: Regulations for home solar insta... by neilwilson on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @08:18AM (#15283945)
Not the case in the UK at all.

Up to 4Kw the power distributor has to accept your connection and it is done on a post reporting basis. Over 4Kw you fill in a form and get generator permission from the distributor. I got mine in a few weeks.

Once it is grid connected, then the inverters isolate if they lose grid power. Since the UK has fairly good grid connections that rarely if ever happens.

Never a problem - except for the guns and butter brigade. Fortunately most of those who were that way inclined moved to the Americas 100 years or so ago.

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