On Feb 14, 2:58*am, harry wrote:
On Feb 13, 6:53*pm, "
wrote:





On Feb 13, 12:08*pm, harry wrote:

On Feb 13, 2:39*pm, "
wrote:

On Feb 13, 2:50*am, Tegger wrote:

harry wrote in news:dbd3954d-ae20-4dfe-b022-
:

An ex-neighbour of mine has a PV system/battery that powers his
electric driveway gates. Cheaper than running a quarter mile of cable.
They are installed where it would be costly to provide an alternative
source of power

Where I live, such solar panels are often installed immediately under
existing power lines. For example, those flashing lights that sit atop
certain traffic signs; until recently, those lights simply had a short drop
of cable from the overhead power, but now have a solar panel. Abominably
stupid and expensive, but in keeping with the current tyrant's Green
dreams.

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Tegger

Yes, harry is as clueless as ever. *Probably 95%+ of the solar
installed
is at spots that already have power. * Here in NJ, in addition to
seeing
small ones on utility poles, there are bigger arrays on the roofs of a
lot
of homes and businesses. *They don't work without the grid being
alive.
If the grid goes down, you have no power.

Well ****fer that is intentional, it is a safety and cost thing.

Safety thing? *Cost thing? *Clueless as ever.
The essence of the problem is that without the
grid, the power from a solar array would vary all
over the place. *What do you think would happen
to your furnace or TV every time a cloud came by?

But you haven't the wit to understand this.
There are standalone systems but they are much more expensive.- Hide quoted text -

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You haven't the wit to understand that those solar
panels mounted on utility poles by the power company
are obviously connected to the grid. *THAT is what
you were replying to.

Of course domestic PV are connected to the grid ****fer. How else can
power be exported?

And yet you posted that the solar panels someone saw
mounted along the road on utility poles are used where
running grid power is too difficult or impossible. Go figure.
Those panels too are connected to the grid, dumb ass.



One reason they are disconnected on power failure/outage to prevent
them feeding back into the grid and electrocuting whoever is making
the repair.

They are not just "disconnected". More importantly without
the grid, they no longer provide power to the house. You could
disconnect them, just like a standby generator if backfeeding was
the issue.




BTW, the ones on poles are not "obviously connected to the grid"
I can think of several reason why this might nor be so.
All of them to do with money.

Look dumb ass. The poster was talking about solar panels
on utility poles in NJ. You don't live here, so why do you insist
on making an ass of yourself? The ones he's talking about
are installed by the power company and most certainly grid
connected.




Micro-power generation is beneficial because it can be connected to
the grid without needing to enlarge/modify the grid, the power
generated is used locally.

Well, yeah. Gee, maybe that's why they are connected to
the grid, dumb ass.