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https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/21/solar-balconies-are-booming-in-germany-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-popular-home->
"More than 400,000 plug-in solar systems have been installed in Germany, most
of them taking up a seamless spot on people’s balconies.
New data shows at least 50,000 of the PV devices were added in the first
quarter of 2024 alone. A boom born from Germany’s “very strong solar culture”,
in the words of one expert.
Solar balconies are a piece of the wider energy transition across Europe,
explains Jan Osenberg, a policy advisor at the SolarPower Europe association.
“We see them as a subset of rooftop solar, but also as something different,” he
tells Euronews Green. “We basically see it as a trend to use all possible
artificial infrastructure for solar generation.”
Train tracks, motorways, carparks, car roofs, cemeteries and building facades…
the list of structures getting a solar makeover goes on and on.
So why are other European countries slow on the balustrade uptake? And what do
you need to know if you’re eyeing up a panel or two for your balcony?"
Via
What Could Go Right? Exiting the Grexit Era:
https://theprogressnetwork.org/greece-economy-2024/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
