Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box - a terrible ...

Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box - a terrible technology that stops working if it can't reach the internet for a protracted period (that's right, your home solar stops working if the grid fails!).

I found this out the hard way during the covid lockdowns, when Solaredge terminated its 3G cellular contract and notified me that I would have to replace the modem in my system or it would stop working.

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