My brother, who lives in germany, has told me about this before and i love the idea so much. Its so simple to implement and has no downsides whatsoever. The person renting the appartment buys the solar panel and if they leave they can easily take it with them.
And yet, i can not for the life of me get my land lord convinced to allow me to do this too despite it needing no permanent changes to the apartment…
Solar panels rules are too strict here too, and i love that germany just embraced them like its nothing
Yet, some landlords refused it. There have been talks about a new regulation, but currently a landlord can more or less arbitrarily deny solar panels.
My “landlord” is a company owned 100% by the city I live in, they claim to embrace solar, but in order to get the permit to install a panel I need a structural review of the balcony, which a) costs a ton of money and b) I need some documentation (blueprints/plan) from my landlord. So far that sounds kind of reasonable, buuuut they refuse to give out any information about their buildings, so even if I would pay someone to prove the balcony won’t collapse, this guy can’t finish the report without knowing what the wall is made of.
So effectively, they managed to pull ye olde Kafka not-really-denial.
My brother, who lives in germany, has told me about this before and i love the idea so much. Its so simple to implement and has no downsides whatsoever. The person renting the appartment buys the solar panel and if they leave they can easily take it with them.
And yet, i can not for the life of me get my land lord convinced to allow me to do this too despite it needing no permanent changes to the apartment… Solar panels rules are too strict here too, and i love that germany just embraced them like its nothing
Yet, some landlords refused it. There have been talks about a new regulation, but currently a landlord can more or less arbitrarily deny solar panels.
My “landlord” is a company owned 100% by the city I live in, they claim to embrace solar, but in order to get the permit to install a panel I need a structural review of the balcony, which a) costs a ton of money and b) I need some documentation (blueprints/plan) from my landlord. So far that sounds kind of reasonable, buuuut they refuse to give out any information about their buildings, so even if I would pay someone to prove the balcony won’t collapse, this guy can’t finish the report without knowing what the wall is made of.
So effectively, they managed to pull ye olde Kafka not-really-denial.