by Alicia Luke, Freedom OutPost:

California residents are learning the hard way their solar panels can’t keep their lights on.

Many residents didn’t understand that their solar panels would stop working when the power was cut because only solar panels that were installed with a battery backup will keep working.

Bloomberg reports the market for batteries has started to take off.

California residents are learning their solar panels can’t keep the lights on amid PG&E power cuts.

Here’s why solar panels don’t work in blackouts #CalilforniaBlackout pic.twitter.com/GWa4ZtasKB

— Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc) October 11, 2019

Bloomberg:

Californians have embraced rooftop solar panels more than anyone in the U.S., but many are learning the hard way the systems won’t keep the lights on during blackouts.

That’s because most panels are designed to supply power to the grid — not directly to houses. During the heat of the day, solar systems can crank out more juice than a home can handle. Conversely, they don’t produce power at all at night.

So systems are tied into the grid, and the vast majority aren’t working this week as PG&E Corp. cuts power to much of Northern California to prevent wildfires. More

Requiring solar panels have driven the cost of housing up in California the state with one of the highest poverty and homeless levels in the nation.

As it turns out they designed the systems to feed the grid and not the home. You think that would have had to been disclosed to the homeowners in the fine print.

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