As much as landlords like to pretend otherwise, they pretty much have all the power when it comes to legislated rights/protections. They just point to the occasional instance of a squatter or someone abusing the system to pretend like they are victims of said system.
Source: am landlord (rent out my old home) and frankly I can do almost whatever I want. I’m before people start shouting at me about rent seeking and all of that, I actually charge probably 20% less than anyone around me and I’m friends with almost all my tenants lol if shit breaks, I fix it. I do not understand why that is so hard for other landlords. But apparently the bar is so low that that makes me exceptional.
SeedOnTheWind@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The line workers would not be aware of power coming from the load side and therefore may accidentally work on a live line and die.
Most rooftop solar that plugs into the grid is set up to switch off if power goes out for this reason.
This is mostly and educated (from a solar class years ago) guess.
Kelsenellenelvial@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
This is right. A proper system has a transfer switch that prevents back feeding the grid if it’s down. There’s also a safety aspect in that supplying power to the branch circuit in this way bypasses the overcurrent protection, so one could potentially be loading that circuit with 5 A on top of its rated load and cause significant damage.
If a person wants to offset their electricity at this small scale, better to have it powering a shed or charging power tool batteries. Won’t get as good a return, but you’d never get a return on a permitted grid tied system at that scale either.
Eavolution@kbin.social 2 years ago
Would you not have to get a proper switch installed? We have a diesel generator in our house (countryside, unreliable power) and we had to get a big isolater switch, so when the switch is set to generator, nothing can go back into the grid.