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by Syonyk 1493 days ago
Indeed, came here to write basically this. Solar tripping off is solar obeying the rules set on them by the utility that is "You will trip if anything so much as looks funny."

And then a few decades later, they figured out this was a terrible idea and the newer 1741-SA/CA Rule 21/etc stuff with far greater ridethrough for reasonable disturbances showed up, but I don't think it's the majority of solar installs.

I should probably get a Grid Guard code for my SMA inverters and use the revised ridethrough rules - my utility handwaved at it when I installed stuff, and it's using the CA Rule 21 stuff, but they now have far more explicit guidelines on what they want programmed in the inverters.