News Digest Item
31 Oct 2016

“Solar Guerilleros”

taz

Supporters of solar power are seeking to head off a proposed legal constraint on small modules that can be easily plugged into wall sockets, writes Bernward Janzing in taz. The German section of the International Solar 鶹 Society () wants to see a requirement removed that would oblige the estimated 20,000 national users of so-called “Guerilla modules” to connect the devices to a closed circuit due to security concerns. The constraint proposed by the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies poses “a hurdle for the use of small solar modules unparalleled in Europe”, Janzing quotes engineers from the DGS.

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