• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    Yet, some landlords refused it. There have been talks about a new regulation, but currently a landlord can more or less arbitrarily deny solar panels.

    My “landlord” is a company owned 100% by the city I live in, they claim to embrace solar, but in order to get the permit to install a panel I need a structural review of the balcony, which a) costs a ton of money and b) I need some documentation (blueprints/plan) from my landlord. So far that sounds kind of reasonable, buuuut they refuse to give out any information about their buildings, so even if I would pay someone to prove the balcony won’t collapse, this guy can’t finish the report without knowing what the wall is made of.

    So effectively, they managed to pull ye olde Kafka not-really-denial.

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        If your balcony collapses due to 800W worth of solar it’d also collapse due to a couple of planters or a fat friend coming over so I guess you should take such worries as an admission on their part and withhold rent until they prove that the balcony is safe to use.

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            Yes and no, I think withholding rent is a quite German thing (or, rather, courts siding with you when you do it) and “it’s not structurally sound” sounds like a thing rabidly anti-solar landlords would come up with to get around the law.

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      typical hehe
      governments are often more strict in rules than normal people, and those rules often prevent other rules from being enforced hehe
      it shouldnt be though, they should set the bar with their own buildings :)