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Fire incidents involving solar panels - Research

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Published 20 July 2017
Last updated 19 March 2019
From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

"Study on fires involving solar photovoltaic (PV) systems."

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... lar-panels

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Re: Fire incidents involving solar panels - Research

Post by bernicarey »

Thanks WB.
I've got a PV System, but having taken a brief look at this report findings, i.e. Root Cause, I've fairly confident in it's safety. It's been installed 6 years and all components (excluding the panels ;) ) are internally mounted in the dry. :)
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