The 'save the children' crap started decades ago when utilities demanded a lot of extraneous, huge ugly bright scary warning labels, extra disconnect boxes, and

The 'save the children' crap started decades ago when utilities demanded a lot of extraneous, huge ugly bright scary warning labels, extra disconnect boxes, and so on. The goal was to make it as ugly and expensive as possible to discourage residential installs. Further, an inspection by the local government inspector wasn't sufficient. See, you've also got to get the electric company to inspect the system as well, and they'll demand things not spec'd in the state/national code...or they won't allow the system to be connected. This shit is even going on at the grid level. Our regional electrical grid organization admits that their approval process for grid-scale solar or wind connects can take a decade. They insist that much planning is needed for "reliability."