Re:The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
by realityking on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:35AM
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AFAIK this is only true if you pass the power you generate back to the grid - which most people did as it used to be heavily subsidized. If you run your solar without powering the grid, you won‘t be taxed on the used power.
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Re:The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
by archi42 on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:48AM
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The subsidies still exist. And while in absolute numbers they seem low, the reduced costs for solar modules still make them worthwhile.
If you don't feed into the grid as a normal person you're right (that's either "Kleinunternehmerregelung" or, if it's obviously not producing any profit, "Liebhaberei"). But if I built a fictive 500kWp solar plant to power my fictive compute center I would have to pay taxes on the self consumed power. Mind I'm a layman, so I might have gotten that wrong, but I'm 80% sure I got it right.