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Default SSE boss Ian Marchant warns of risk of "lights going out"

On Mar 22, 12:13*pm, "Dave Liquorice"
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:05:42 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Explain to me how solar PV will keep your lights on after dark?


And during a power cut. Don't the invertors shut down without mains to
prevent backfeeding the grid? From both the safety of any line workers
and to protect the invertor from trying to power the entire
neighbourhood.

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Cheers
Dave.


Quite right. But see previous post.
Stand alone invertors are available.