But crises precipitate change. Remember when another mad emperor – Vladimir Putin – invaded Ukraine, and Europe experienced a dire energy shortage? In three short years, the continent's solar uptake skyrocketed. The EU went from being 15 years behind in its energy transition, to ten years ahead of schedule.
True? Did we see acceleration in solar since early 2022, shortening the timeline with 10 yrs? What was the sched anyway?
German court case about balcony photovoltaic installations by people renting homes. The largest German landlord Vonovia withdrew in a case against an Aachen resident. Landlords were making high demands for installations normally reserved for block level installations, while at the same time having no obligation to keep up the tech standard of the existing internal installations. Likely to work as precedent in other tiny scale photovoltaic projects across Germany
Useful interesting description of DIY solar installations not aimed at full electricity generation but application specific power (e.g. laptop phone charging, lamps, fans). With/out storage. If you list the specific things you want to run on solar you can perhaps have solar capacity specifically for it. Practical implementation of [[Design for intermittency 20190114164941]]