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Balcony solar is all the rage in Germany. Why not in the US? (www.canarymedia.com)
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[โ€“] kalpol@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bunch of reasons. Power is pretty cheap, thats the big one, so the payoff is long long away.. The infrastructure you need even for a small solar array to prevent feeding back into the grid when you aren't supposed to isn't really developed here for small-scale deployments. We have big hailstorms, someone has to pay the insurance bill. Just a bunch of reasons.

Solar and wind in spite of the rhetoric is really big here, so not a lot to gain by expensive small solar installs.

[โ€“] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

None of what your said is true.