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How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels (grist.org)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you are talking about Germany, that is no longer true - landlords can not deny installations without sound reason:

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/balkonkraftwerke-mieter-gesetzesaenderung-100.html

The surrounding laws were updated July this year, so it is a recent change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If your balcony collapses due to 800W worth of solar it'd also collapse due to a couple of planters or a fat friend coming over so I guess you should take such worries as an admission on their part and withhold rent until they prove that the balcony is safe to use.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you might have replied to the wrong comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes and no, I think withholding rent is a quite German thing (or, rather, courts siding with you when you do it) and "it's not structurally sound" sounds like a thing rabidly anti-solar landlords would come up with to get around the law.