[RE-wrenches] Battery backup under attack in CA

[Dan Fink]

Wow, how absurb. It's called UL 1741, I thought.

Dan Fink,
Executive Director;
Otherpower
Buckville Energy Consulting
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:45 AM, August Goers <august at luminalt.com> wrote:

> Hi Wrenches,
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> I bumped into this article about an Outback battery backup system being
> rejected by a utility in Southern CA:
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> http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/solar-battery-backup-under-attack-in-california?cmpid=SolarNL-2013-08-08
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> It sounds like the utility is rejecting the system because the batteries
> have the capability of feeding back to the grid. I'm not familiar enough
> with the Outback system to know how this would work. We are installing a
> pretty good amount of Sunny Island based battery backups these days but
> they don't have the capability of sending battery power to the grid.
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> Thoughts?
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> -August
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