Guidance for plug in solar for Electricians

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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  • That is part of the problem, CE parts are not necessarily OK, or at least they have not been tested to the UK interim standard, and if they were, they may or may not meet it - the no of devices that are models already sold in Europe that are failing to meet the UK registration requirements is significant. I suspect they are EMC failures rather than safety ,but it would be good to know.
    Mike