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Failsafe export limitation

Also known as fail-safe export limitation

Failsafe export limitation is fallback behaviour in a G100 (Engineering Recommendation G100) export-limiting scheme, used to keep export within a DNO agreed limit if a control component or communication path fails.

Failsafe export limitation is fallback behaviour in a G100 (Engineering Recommendation G100) export-limiting scheme that is meant to keep export at or below the DNO agreed limit if a meter, controller, CT (current transformer), power supply or communication link fails. In solar PV, battery or hybrid inverter systems, the safe state may reduce active power output, stop battery charge or discharge, stop PV production or rely on another type-tested behaviour recorded in the product evidence. The exact behaviour is product-specific, so the phrase should be read with the connection agreement, G100 evidence and commissioning record rather than as a general permission or compliance verdict.

Category

Inverters and power electronics

Applies to

Solar, Battery storage

Last reviewed

15 Jun 2026

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