Balcony solar taking off: 1.5M Germans have them there must be something in it

Re:Balcony solar taking off: 1.5M Germans have them there mu... by carlosjobim on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:08PM (#43005901)

Ask yourself why you are interested in an investment that has only meager returns if everything works out well? Is it worth your time thinking about +/- €10 per month? If that's the case, you could probably achieve it just by using a little less electricity.

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Re:Balcony solar taking off: 1.5M Germans have them there mu... by tbossanova on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:20PM (#43008558)

Or do both?

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Re:Balcony solar taking off: 1.5M Germans have them there mu... by oezi on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:17AM (#43009930)

This is very much a fire and forget thing. Install takes 2 hours and then generates electricity for years.

Electricity is rather cheap anyway. If you don't heat/cool water or the house with it, electricity cost in Germany is less than 100 EUR per month for a family of 4.

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Re:Balcony solar taking off: 1.5M Germans have them there mu... by te0006 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:18AM (#43009941)

Interestingly, owning even a small PV setup like these "balcony solar" devices, and monitoring its output, causes many people to think more about their grid power consumption, and to reduce it or adapt their usage pattern to solar energy availability to some extent. There is something like gamification going on.

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