German Parliament, Bundestag, this week passed new laws allowing renters and property owners to create balcony solar systems with fewer restrictions. This is a massive encourage in the direction of making the most out of solar energy utilization. These changes, dubbed universal measures that apply to rental and property laws are designed to disrupt the power landlords and capital co-ops have to summarily halt the spread of solar without good reason.
Carsten Körnig from the BSW solar power association forcefully argued on behalf of these legal reforms, employing the rhetoric of a full-scale endorsement of Germany???s aggressive energy turnaround goals. He further argued forth in a practical sense that making solar use enforceably a right to the owners of buildings that rent their properties for a fee changes the dynamic fundamentally in favor of FFF and expected public opinion to then mirror that. These amendments will have far-reaching effects in Germany, where fifty percent of the population lives in rented apartments. They too track with an ambitious target set by Berlin to secure seventy percent or more clean, renewable energy by the year 2030.
The new rules apply only to plug-in solar installations under 2000 watts which are usually used to reduce electricity bills in households. Outside of plugging it in and attaching it to your balcony, these installations do not require any modification to the electricity meter, the economy ministry added.
The decision comes as demand for balcony solar systems has increased dramatically. Around 550,000 of these devices are in use today, with half of them installed last year alone. This indicates a trend of increasing public interest and investment into the solar power market.
Germany is setting a benchmark with the long-waited adoption of net-metering concept.