The so-called “community checker” will permit residential PV clients in Belgium to examine if there have been any inverter failures of their native space. It comes after Belgian grid operator Fluvius launched a compensation scheme for individuals who will not be reconnected inside 30 working days of a curtailment.

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Belgium’s electrical energy grid operator Fluvius has launched a brand new instrument to permit all residential PV clients to see if there are any excellent complaints associated to inverter failure of their space.

The launch of the so-called “community checker” follows Fluvius’ announcement that it’ll compensate residential PV programs if they don’t seem to be reconnected inside 30 working days after a curtailment occasion.

The most recent compensation package deal, introduced in April, adopted over 5,000 complaints from residential PV array house owners within the final 12 months that their inverters weren’t instantly reconnected after curtailment incidents. The determine is equal to 0.55% of Belgium’s deployed PV programs.

Upon launching the checker, Fluvius acknowledged that elevated solar within the coming months may trigger issues with inverter failure “at some peak instances and really domestically”. 

Residential PV house owners will be capable of log into the checker utilizing their EAN quantity. It would inform clients the danger of inverter failure is both ‘low’, that means there are not any excellent complaints within the space, or ‘current’, that means there may be a minimum of one open grievance with a network-related trigger. It would additionally inform clients of grievance recordsdata in progress associated to their EAN quantity.

Fluvius’ newest replace additionally says the Flemish authorities is but to find out the extent of compensation for small, common and large-scale installations that aren’t reconnected inside a month. It says the compensation amounted to €10.6/kVA of inverter energy in 2023.

Belgium reached a cumulative put in solar energy capability of greater than 9.8 GW on the finish of 2023, the vast majority of which is represented by rooftop PV programs as much as 10 kW in dimension.

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