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#australia #auspol big impact for small $$$ theguardian.com/environment/20…
‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off
Balcony solar panels can save 30% on a typical household’s electricity bill and, with vertical surface area in cities larger than roof space, the appeal is clearStephen Burgen (The Guardian)
Apparently, #Eskom is going after people on #solar, who are still connected to the grid in some way, calling their installations "illegal" and charging exorbitant sums of money to become "compliant". :( #SouthAfrica
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Big warning for solar power users in South Africa
Eskom regards all solar power systems connected to its grid without registration to be “illegal” and “unsafe,” regardless of whether they have a CoC and been configured not to feed electricity back into the grid.Hanno Labuschagne (MyBroadband)
"Big batteries at home could catch fire! They are a risk!"
No: "the findings indicate that the probability of an home storage systems (HSS) fire is very low (0.0049 %) and is 50 times lower than for a general house fire."
"But solar panels catch fire quite often!"
No: "Compared to the generally low fire probability of an HSS, the probability of PV systems catching fire is a further three times lower"
Preprint, RWTH Aachen, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
#Renewables #Solar #PV #Battery #Research
Quantitative Fire Risk Assessment of Battery Home Storage Systems in Comparison to General House Fires in Germany and Other Battery Related Fires
Battery storage systems are becoming an integral part of the energy transition, as they offer the possibility of bridging time windows in which self-generated rpapers.ssrn.com
