Quite so - and, as I keep saying, the moment we find ourselves talking about products which (if they ever 'come') will not be coming with "a fitted BS1363 plug that can be plugged into any existing BS1363 socket" then I don't think we would any longer be talking about 'plug-in solar' in the sense that most people seem to be thinking about it.
Something which comes with a 'special' (not BS1363-compatible) plug which has to be plugged into a 'special' socket installed by an electrician, that surely is not 'plug-in solar' in any sensible sense ... and, furthermore, as for getting paid for export, that surely would rarely work with 'true plug-in solar', since there is no metering of export associated with the vast majority of BS1363 sockets into which it may be plugged (and not even necessarily plugged into the same installation every day
).As I keep saying, I think we are wasting our time with this very premature and speculative discussion. In the meantime, there will undoubtedly be people who find ways of doing things which are not actually 'allowed' by laws and/or regulations, but that is true much more widely than in the context we're currently talking about. Let's face it, it takes only the click of a mouse button to buy (in the UK) things like ...
