"Ed Throws Trade Bodies Into Chaos Over DIY Solar!" (efixx) :-) lol
Cue another early amendment and Section in BS7671 and another 'membership' level in the brilliant CPSs for the trade to do DIY Solar installs.
:-)
"Ed Throws Trade Bodies Into Chaos Over DIY Solar!" (efixx) :-) lol
Cue another early amendment and Section in BS7671 and another 'membership' level in the brilliant CPSs for the trade to do DIY Solar installs.
:-)
Below is something I penned a few months ago on the discussion called
It seems that we are going to repeat the EVSE issue again. The industry is moving much faster than the regulations thus with no regulations/product specifications in place in the UK we are at the mercy of the sales and marketing team of the manufacturer. Uk government and BSI and IET need to take a somewhat proactive approach to the product spec and start getting something down on paper (other type of medium are available). I agree that version 1 may not be a a mature specification but it is better than nothing.
As a sidenote with DIY solar/DIY inverter/DIY battery storage there needs to be a working group for the UK discussing and designing UK power stability be it through inertia or other mechanisms to proactively stabilising the UK power grid.
Below is something I penned a few months ago on the discussion called
It seems that we are going to repeat the EVSE issue again. The industry is moving much faster than the regulations thus with no regulations/product specifications in place in the UK we are at the mercy of the sales and marketing team of the manufacturer. Uk government and BSI and IET need to take a somewhat proactive approach to the product spec and start getting something down on paper (other type of medium are available). I agree that version 1 may not be a a mature specification but it is better than nothing.
As a sidenote with DIY solar/DIY inverter/DIY battery storage there needs to be a working group for the UK discussing and designing UK power stability be it through inertia or other mechanisms to proactively stabilising the UK power grid.
As a sidenote with DIY solar/DIY inverter/DIY battery storage there needs to be a working group for the UK discussing and designing UK power stability be it through inertia or other mechanisms to proactively stabilising the UK power grid.
Here's a presentation from a couple of years ago on a related issue which I don't think gets anywhere near enough attention - the potential for coordinated malicious abuse of most of these internet-connected devices due to their appalling software security design and execution.
When this research was released, I saw very little coverage of this outside of the computer security community, but it really should bring certain people at NESO out in a cold sweat.
Watch what they could get (every single model of) one brand of device to do (without authorisation, and from anywhere on the globe):
...of course this goes for normal hard wired inverters too. My inverter doesn't get to talk to the Internet and there is no way it ever will, but that doesn't matter much if everyone else's can.
On non-malicious grid stability issues, this UNSW video is quite old now but also very interesting - it'd be worth checking that the tightened approval testing and firmware upgrades that resulted from this work made their way this side of the equator too: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0N2LT5Vmng&t=67
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