[snapplebobapple]

Many areas it is illegal to not be connected to the grid in the city (it certainly is in my home city in Canada). I bet a lot of stuff would go DC in this case (i.e. lighting) I suspect appliances would stay AC because they would put a huge premium on dc appliances just because they can.

[dhc02]

One opposing force to this eventuality is the huge and still-growing RV/camper/boat industry, which has begun shipping some really good, house-sized DC electric appliances lately. It seems like these worlds might one day converge.

[joshspankit]

> Many areas it is illegal to not be connected to the grid

It’s mind-boggling that this happened as it only seems to serve the private power companies while simultaneously restricting entire populations from some of the biggest benefits of current and future sustainable energy sources.

[snapplebobapple]

It's not really surprising when you look at the history. In my area the distribution at the city level was put in by the public utility owned by the city, so of course they are going to mandate that the business the city is taking huge debt out in to gamble on electrification will be propped up with a requirement to be grid connected to get any permit. This doesn't make it right, but I get why they did this and why it continues.

[CorrectHorseBat]

I suspect probably just a way to stop landlords from renting out units without electricity

[antonjs]

In some places it's also illegal to have that many LI batteries in your house (looking at you, SF).