{"id":234910,"date":"2026-04-10T03:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/plug-in-solar-is-coming-how-dangerous-is-it-and-is-it-worth-it"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:38:11","slug":"plug-in-solar-is-coming-how-dangerous-is-it-and-is-it-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/plug-in-solar-is-coming-how-dangerous-is-it-and-is-it-worth-it","title":{"rendered":"Plug-in solar is coming \u2014 how dangerous is it and is it worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plug-in-solar-is-coming-how-dangerous-is-it-and-is-it-worth-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plug-in solar panels are a cheaper, simpler alternative to professionally installed panels. But can they really reduce energy bills and are they safe? <strong>Matthew Sparkes <\/strong>investigates.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/matthew-sparkes\/\">Matthew Sparkes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in solar panels are a cheaper, simpler alternative to professionally installed panels. But can they really reduce energy bills and are they safe? Matthew Sparkes investigates. By Matthew Sparkes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}