To help everyone cope we are sending this image of a #squirrel sitting on an inverter at a #pluginpv #solarpanel
#pluginPV
@burger_jaap
Those battery packs would be highly useful in Finland, too. There are thousands of off grid summer cottages and a 5 kWh battery with built in 2 kW 220 VAC socket is ideal for simple electric kitchen appliances. A back up power supply in each household would also make a valuable contribution to national security.
Unfortunately #pluginPV #BalconySolar systems are not allowed in Finland.
#Balkonkraftwerk
US standards organization Underwriter Laboratories mentions #pluginpv in its newsletter:
„Even if you live in an apartment, powering your home with #solar energy that you generate from your own balcony could be possible. Here at UL Solutions, we’re making strides to ensure plug-in solar systems (#balconysolar) can be, most importantly, safely adopted. We’ve established a dedicated plug-in solar system testing and certification program.
https://s.ul.com/4pEGxUo“
@TechConnectify by the way: even if you don’t have the money or space for roof top solar, you can still do #pluginpv!
The #SanFrancisco Chronicle on #pluginpv:
"The rapidly emerging market of plug-in solar panels that are cheaper, quicker to deploy and accessible to homeowners with shady roofs or renters with no roofs at all. (…) In Germany, after years of lobbying by clean energy and industry groups, a certification body released the first guideline for “#balconysolar” in 2017. Some 4 million Germans, most of them unregistered, have since bought plug-in #balkonkraftwerke, sold in hardware stores for the equivalent of a few hundred dollars. Germany also recently strengthened the rights of renters to install them.”
RE: https://freiburg.social/@balkonsolar/115853334522413380
Germany’s biggest property manager is now allowing tenants to install #pluginpv or #balconysolar panels after one of the larges environmental NGOs Environmental Action #Germany (#DUH) helped a tennant with his lawsuit against #vonovia.
This is another breakthrough in a series of cases supported by them and us.
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@pluralistic we like that you mentioned #PluginPV 💪
Cory Doctorow of the #EFF is right: we should ignore aesthetic objections to #balconysolar and just use it. Excerpt from his talk at #39c3 published under a creative commons license 4.
On https://rechtaufsolar.de German users can find lots of legal to deal with their landlords, when they oppose #pluginpv!
Our chair @salacidre & Juliane B gave this english talk at the #39c3 about empowering journey through the #energytransition.
Not only about @ews the Electricity Rebells from #Schönau deep in the #Blackforrest, #heatpumps large enough to power neighbourhoods, #solar tech, #windturbines, #Mormon State Senators all in for #pluginpv and pessimistic forecast that regularly turned out to be false.
June 6th 2025 we wrote to Michael Shanks about legalising #pluginpv in the #UK: https://balkon.solar/news/2025/06/30/promotion-of-plug-in-pv-systems-in-the-uk-letter-to-minister-of-energy-michael-shanks/
Despite contacting his constituents office and the #British Embassy in Berlin, he never replied to us.
So today we will send the letter by Snail Mail. Maybe we get a reply in 2026.
RE: https://freiburg.social/@balkonsolar/115754433974727816
At Germany’s equivalent of Home Depot you can get a 445 W solar panel for €69, an inverter for 109€ and mounting for 49€, cables for 29€. And this isn’t the cheapest offer.
Underwriter Laboratories has published an “Outline of Investigation for Interactive Plug-In PV (PIPV) Equipment and Systems”, available at:
https://www.shopulstandards.com/ProductDetail.aspx?UniqueKey=49440
We have not yet read this new US standard on #pluginpv as we have trouble accessing the Digital View.
RE: https://freiburg.social/@balkonsolar/115701783032155339
I gave a presentation about the new German #pluginpv norm, which you can now watch on YouTube:
I was asked to give a presentation about the new German #pluginpv norm for some 🇺🇸:
The new norm is only part of a variety of policies that enable #balconysolar in 🇩🇪:
- legal definition in the renewables act
- right to plug in for condos and tennant
- inclusion on liability insurance
- 0% VAT
What is the German market?
We have ca 4 Mio #pluginpv systems running right now.
➡️ 10% of German households have #balconysolar
The vast majority of them using Schuko Plugs and usually in single family housing.
½ of them have a battery and most of them installed by the users themselves.
#Balkonkraftwerk – Informationsabend
Kostenfreie Onlineveranstaltung am 15.12.2025 von 19:00 bis 20:30 Uhr
Mehr Informationen und Link zur Teilnahme: https://solar2030.de/event/solar2030-balkonkraftwerk-infoveranstaltung-4/
Bist du Mieter, Eigentümer in einer WEG oder Eigenheimbesitzer und könntest du dir vorstellen, am Balkon deinen eigenen Strom zu erzeugen? Interessieren dich die Themen "Balkonkraftwerke, Stecker Solargeräte, deren Kosten und die Förderung der Stadt München?
Dann empfehle ich dir zur Information diese kostenlose Online-Veranstaltung, bei der du auch Fragen stellen kannst.
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Comprehensive and calm @PBSNewsHour / @kqed report about the state of #PlugInPV in the US: “now, a new generation of small, affordable systems (…) making clean energy more accessible (…) Already widespread in Germany, the movement is gaining momentum”
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