Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US

• match@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they call them “rentoids” now

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Having lived in a rental for many many years the inability to make small mods is SO annoying.

  But this does beg the question, who OWNS a balcony. 99% of the home owners I know have single family houses. Granted I live in the south so owning an apartment is not the norm but I assume some people own an apartment in places like New York? But I’d assume people do?

  I tried to look it up and from what I could find only about 15-17% of housing units in the US are apartments, and of those only about 15% own. So maybe 2% even have the opportunity. And this is assuming THOSE units have balconies, which I’m assuming only a small percentage of that 2% do. I’d think this is a major factor to balcony solar not taking off.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Owned apartments are just referred to as condos and presumably the condo owner owns the balcony while the “HOA/COA” owns the building.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why? Landlords usually have more capital accessible to make this kind of move.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because tenants pay for their own electricity so there’s no direct incentive for the owners to install solar in order to reduce a bill that someone else pays.

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