Fires linked to solar panels force Suffolk council to switch them off in 80 schools indefinitely
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Three fires and 80 schools offline show how a few high-visibility incidents can stall distributed energy adoption when safety and monitoring aren’t clearly owned. If you operate solar or other edge energy assets, tighten inspection, telemetry, and incident playbooks now — reputational risk can erase years of deployment in a week.
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