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Belgium electrical energy grid operator Fluvius has launched a brand new software to permit all residential PV clients to see if there are any uncommon complaints associated to inverter failure of their space.
The launch of the so-called “community checker” follows Fluvius’ announcement that it’s going to pay residential PV programs if they don’t seem to be reconnected inside 30 working days after a curtailment occasion.
The newest compensation bundle, introduced in April, adopted greater than 5,000 complaints from residential PV array house owners final 12 months that their inverters weren’t instantly reconnected after shorting incidents. The determine corresponds to 0.55% of the deployed PV system in Belgium.
At the launch of the checker, Fluvius acknowledged that elevated solar energy within the coming months may trigger issues with inverter failure “at some peak hours and really regionally”.
Residential PV house owners can log into the checker utilizing their EAN quantity. It will inform clients that the chance of inverter failure is both ‘low’, which means there are not any excellent complaints in place, or ‘present’, which means there may be no less than one open grievance associated to the community. It may even notify clients of ongoing grievance recordsdata associated to their EAN quantity.
The newest Fluvius replace additionally says that the Flemish authorities has not but decided the extent of compensation for small, common and huge installations that haven’t been reconnected inside a month. It says that the compensation quantities to €10.6/kVA of inverter energy in 2023.
Belgium has reached a cumulative put in solar energy capability of greater than 9.8 GW by the tip of 2023, the vast majority of which is represented by rooftop PV programs as much as 10 kW in measurement.
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