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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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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You also use 120VAC which makes the current overload issue a lot worse.

Voltage inside of residences is 120v AC, but its 240v thats delivered to each house. I think a bigger difference is that in the USA that 240v AC is single phase where I believe (Germany included) many nations in the EU are 3 phase.

The USA does have 3 phase power for most commercial applications though.