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400,000 ‘solar balconies’ boost German home energy harvesting capacity | The solar balcony generates only a tenth of the power output of a rooftop solution, but it is portable if the homeowner wishes to relocate.


German cities have a new trend. Individuals living in smaller apartments buy plug-in solar systems and install them on their balconies.

The European Union encourages this new technology, but the member countries have responded differently to this push. It prefers greater control over who supplies the power and when to avoid a grid collapse due to excessive electrical input. Experts told Euro news that the output from these systems was so little that its impact on the grid would be negligible.

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