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lpcvoidtoday at 2:15 PM1 replyview on HN

That's maybe a problem of east Germany in particular. I see Balkonkraftwerke (small balcony solar arrays, 1-4 modules with a microinverter plugged directly into an outlet) everywhere when I drive through major west German cities, even on rental apartment balconies.


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torawaytoday at 4:56 PM

  > 1-4 modules with a microinverter plugged directly into an outlet
Interesting, is it really that simple and legal/up to code/safe? My naive assumption is that feeding back to mains would be more complex/costly that that but very cool if not.
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