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Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them (www.npr.org)
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[โ€“] CMahaff@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hmmm, I wonder how this would affect things in the future where this is widely used.

I.E. if you had both widespread solar usage and some kind of large blackout, would it be hard to get all your solar back online because it's all in the "waiting for the grid" state? And the grid can't come back at capacity because all the solar it's expecting is out?

I assume people smarter than me have this figured out, but just a random thought if anyone knows more.

[โ€“] zurohki@aussie.zone 8 points 6 hours ago

You turn on parts of the grid at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start