[SGVLUG] Off-topic - solar power - city of pasadena

Robert Leyva mrflash818 at geophile.net
Fri Mar 9 13:20:38 PST 2007


Yup. That's the downside of grid-intertie.

But, hopefully I will be helping reduce the probability of that happening.


>> -----Original Message----- Of Robert Leyva
>
>
> In the "it always pays to read the fine print" section, I noticed a
> brief paragraph entitled "Interconnection" that states:
>
>      "... National Electric Code (NEC) standards may prohibit operation
> of the customer's system when PWP power is interrupted."
>
> So, I take it that if there is a power failure in the middle of a hot
> sunny day ('cause too many A/C units are online), your solar system
> would shut down too...
>
>


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Robert Leyva
mrflash818 at geophile.net



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