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Guidance for plug in solar for Electricians

Alan B

We are now a few days from plug in solar being legal. The likes of Martin Lewis is recommending people should ask an electrician to check their installation before plugging a solar system in.

I have seen various comments referring back to changes in the law and changes to the specification for a 13A plug.

But I haven't seen any guidance from IET, NAPIT or NICEIC for electricians stating under what conditions it's acceptable to plug one of these systems in.

Personally as it stands today based on what I have seen I would not be willing to say iny installation is acceptable unless it was a single socket on it's own circuit protected by a bidirectional type A RCBO. Which I am sure isn't what the government wants.

Have I missed something, is something in the pipline?

I know lots of people will just do it, but in those situations I am not responsible.

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    Alan B said:
    The likes of Martin Lewis is recommending people should ask an electrician to check their installation before plugging a solar system in.

    I am not clear why plugging in an 800 W negative load would be any more dangerous that plugging in a 3 kW positive one.

  • 0 in reply to Chris Pearson

    Doesn't a negative load reverse time? Like an anti-ageing cream. If you apply to much you get ..[insert facetious consequence here] ? 

    You have to hope that he negative load (aka supply) actually does collapse to zero load, as soon as the DNO supply stops providing a reference synchronisation signal, etc etc.

    consumer : anti-sumer : pro-sumer

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  • 0 in reply to Chris Pearson

    Doesn't a negative load reverse time? Like an anti-ageing cream. If you apply to much you get ..[insert facetious consequence here] ? 

    You have to hope that he negative load (aka supply) actually does collapse to zero load, as soon as the DNO supply stops providing a reference synchronisation signal, etc etc.

    consumer : anti-sumer : pro-sumer

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