‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off
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A mere drop in the bucket when 77m have decided on a much worse course of action in another country.
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For apartment buildings I don't think that's possible, since electricity is a per household connection with separate meter.
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On second thought... yeah.
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And does this have anything to do with generating power from solar panels on your own balcony?
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Those small balcony systems pay for them here in Germany at ~35 Cents/kWh in a few months. Even if your power bill is 7x cheaper, they will pay for themselves easily.
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That's amazing.
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Still very cool, because selling surplus power is almost completely worthless anyway. (at least it is here)
In the summer when you can sell, prices are generally extremely low, we have sold about twice what we use, but the value of selling is only about 5-10% on average, compared to the savings of using it ourselves. That's because the price often drop to close to zero in the middle of the day, and sometimes even below.
Electricity itself is dirt cheap, the reason the prices are high are transportation and taxes, and short peak prices. Here transportation alone is more than the electricity itself during winter.
And we are only paid the pure electricity price here, which I suppose is the case most places.
