Balcony Solar

[NikLiverpool]

I started reading from the beginning of the topic and I must admit I am more confused now.
For example the chance of feeding back to the grid in case of a power cut. I am pretty sure that the ecoflow kits need live wires or they switch off.
Or in my case with the piwerwall if there is a power cut my home becomes an island and in theory it should happily carry on generating.
As I said before I need to dig further into this...

 

[Bam Bam]

Ok. Aware of this, been following this thread, have solar and maxed against what our maximum inverter limit is in NI (3.68kw) so could else be away around that limit?

You'd have to check the rules when they are released. But will NI have different regulations anyway?

At present my understanding is that you are supposed to inform your DNO if you have an inverter connected.

 

[Bam Bam]

I started reading from the beginning of the topic and I must admit I am more confused now.
For example the chance of feeding back to the grid in case of a power cut. I am pretty sure that the ecoflow kits need live wires or they switch off.
Or in my case with the piwerwall if there is a power cut my home becomes an island and in theory it should happily carry on generating.
As I said before I need to dig further into this...

From what I understand there are two broad concerns, but perhaps there are others I have missed...

There is a the potential backfeed issue (devices don't shut down when the grid goes down like they are supposed to). Hopefully the technology will stop this, if all the devices are of suitable quality and they don't get fooled into assuming that the grid remains when it is not. This is a risk to line workers.

Then there are the concerns about the internal wiring in people's homes not being capable of handling the extra load and overheating, which is a risk to those in the home.

Anything I've missed?

 

[Giller]

You'd have to check the rules when they are released. But will NI have different regulations anyway?

At present my understanding is that you are supposed to inform your DNO if you have an inverter connected.

Hmmm. I’m not jumping in on theses, in NI with our grid you can’t have more than a 3.68 inverter because of the infrastructure, I’ll see what happens.