It's also slick as hell seeing DJI for example add grid-tie capabilities to their Power 2000 power station/ battery. Capable of 1800W solar, but gained grid tie after the fact. https://dronedj.com/2025/09/01/dji-power-2000-energy-grid/
https://grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-mil...
"More than 550,000 of them dot cities and towns nationwide, half of which were installed in 2023.... Solar panels are connected to a microinverter that is plugged into a wall outlet and feeds electricity directly into the home. "
ggm•4mo ago
A turn switch at the fuse box might get over that, otherwise you're seeking the plug behind the fridge freezer to plug it directly into the "UPS" when the bad thing happens.
TheCleric•4mo ago
And I know at my house I have a master cut off switch.
potato3732842•4mo ago
Also makes a great place to a) cable your genset to b) daisy chain house to house (to share power between houses if one has a genset)
gizmo686•4mo ago
For obvious reasons, we need it to not backpower the grid during an outage. In theory, we could have the owner shut off their main breaker, then override the inverters lock-out. However, any inverter that allows that cannot be allowed on the market, because someone is going to flip the switch on the inverter without flipping the main breaker.
We would need the switch on the breaker to communicate over to the inverter to allow for safe operations in an outage. We could probably do that communication over the existing power lines, but you would still need an electrician to modify the fuse box to do so; which defeats half the point of plug-and-play solar.