Snow Alvalanche from Panels

[brightasaspark]

Having already cleared several inches of snow from one ofour paths this morning, it wasn’t long before a “whoosh” noise and yes you have guessed it the snow decided to avalanche off the panels and deposit itself on the clear path.

Moral of the story – don’t be too eager to clear the path. But seriously, I’m in a bungalow and having that quantity of snow fall on your head would be a bit of a hazard even more so if it had slipped from a house roof 2 or 3 stories up.

Ok my panels are registered and covered for the normal insurable looses such as storm etc but I am left wondering how and if the insurance industry have considered the third party liability damages/ claims should a member of the public get struck with an avalanche sliding from solar panels. A lot of new houses are now built with minimal frontages meaning anything that falls from the roof tends to land on the public pavement, which could aggravate the problem even further.

Can I see the advent of snow arrestors built into the roof below any panel run – I wonder what they have done if anything in Germany etc where snowfall is a far more regular occurrence than here?

 

[snowhead]

but I am left wondering how and if the insurance industry have considered the third party liability damages/ claims should a member of the public get struck with an avalanche sliding from solar panels.

They haven't paid out in the last few hundred years for snow falling from roofs, we'd hear about insurance costs going up every time it snowed if they had.
So there's no reason to believe a claim from panels would be successful.

 

[SibertSolar]

And Snowhead should know..... ;-)

 

[telectrix]

if anyone is daft enough to think they can make a claim fo a bit of soft snow landing on them, they've been watching too many blame direct ads. all i can say to people like this is " get a life, or walk under a bus".