News Digest Item
13 Jul 2017

“Tenants use about 80 percent of their balcony power for themselves”

pv magazine

A pilot project by energy provider EWE for solar panels on the balconies of tenant flats has shown that residents use the vast majority of the generated electricity for private use instead of selling it on the market, Michael Fuhs writes in pv magazine. “Tenants were able to cover about 20 percent of their total power use” with the solar panels, he says.

Read the article in German here.

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