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There are already a few requirements for operating the balcony panels, At least here in Germany:

You need a suitable electricity meter
You have to register with a relevant authority and inform the electricity provider that you are operating a “balcony power plant”.
The microconverter should run on its own secured circuit. (“Should”, will certainly do very few) But technically it is simple:

Set up panels
Connecting necessary plugs
Microconverter to the socket
Be happy that you produce up to 800 watts of your own electricity

I think it’s almost irrelevant how many panels you ultimately split up. However, no more than 800 watts may be fed in.But if you have panels with, let’s say, 2000 watts, you can of course charge various batteries with them beforehand. Nobody can say anything against it.

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DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just for your information : belgium is allowing the balcony solar panels this year, but they have put limits on which you can install. The power supplier needs to have approved the kit you install. This is just to prevent people from getting cheap crap from the internet.
Other than that, same rules!

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- Deway@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Wait really? I didn’t know we finally caught up with the neighbors!
  
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  - RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Officially it’s allowed after April 17th, but there’s already an extensive list of approved devices.
    
    www.test-aankoop.be/…/plug-and-play-zonnepaneel
    
    There’s probably a french version of that article as well, but test- achats/aankoop hasn’t made it easy to switch languages :)
    
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Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

You need a suitable electricity meter

That makes sense, we also needed new meter, and that was about €200.- with installation. Not a big deal for a big installation, but for a system that can cost only €300.- an extra 200.- would be pretty significant.

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