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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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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It is a commercial product, connected to the grid via a standard schuko plug, sold in Germany.

Or you buy it in Aliexpress/Temu and it will have whatever it will have, no policeman is going to come check if the panel they see from the street has a stamp or not.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But if your house burns down because of your unlicensed configuration, the insurance won't pay, and if people got hurt there will be a criminal investigation.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And this still results in innocent third parties being hurt

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, so people should stick to the legal options. It isn't hard.