“On those kinds of days, very little power is used, while solar panels then produce a lot of power,” NOS editor Joost Schellevis says in the newspaper. NOS Radio 1 News. “Then so much power enters the network that solar panels switch themselves off for safety. Those panels don’t do anything anymore.”
The number of complaints that consumers pass on to network operators about this is growing for the fourth time in a row this year. This concerns more than 3200 complaints, almost half more than a year ago.
To replace
“We must not forget that many people probably don’t even notice when their panels switch off, because the equipment just keeps on running,” says Schellevis. “Only the bill gets a little higher.”
The problem mainly occurs in polders and in older city districts and villages. Grid operators want to replace a third of the grid in the coming years to prevent the shortage of capacity.
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