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Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them (www.kuow.org)
submitted 3 days ago by grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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“Easy-to-install solar panels that plug into a regular outlet are getting attention just as Americans are worried about rising energy costs. That's because these plug-in or balcony solar panels start shaving off part of a homeowner's or renter's utility bill right away.

"”A year ago, nobody was talking about this," says Cora Stryker, co-founder of Bright Saver, a California nonprofit group that advocates for plug-in solar. The panels are already popular in Germany, where more than 1.2 million of the small plug-in systems are registered with the German government.”

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed, according to a research paper funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

So basically, two responses:

  1. So it's no fucking problem then.
  2. Okay, okay, we're talking Americans....... it'll be a problem, then. :)