The availability of electricity and the schedule of outages have become everyday topics during conversations at the market or when meeting friends. If diesel and gasoline generators were popular during the first war winter, now solar power plants are increasingly being installed. One of these types is balcony plants. Balcony solar power plants (Balcony Solar Power Plants) are compact power generation systems installed on balconies or terraces. They allow the use of solar energy to partially meet the electricity needs of small spaces or household appliances. Their popularity is growing due to their ease of installation, affordability, and ability to reduce electricity costs. In Ukraine, these solutions are mostly isolated. In Ukraine, such solutions exist in Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne. Perhaps in other communities as well. Technical aspects The systems that are popular especially in Germany, with about 2 Mio installations, consist of a micro inverter and solar pannels. Their popularity is due to the fact that they repay their installations cost in three to five years and then consumers start saving money. However these systems are designed to input electricity into an existing grid and the inverters turn themselves off, when there is no grid. This is due to electrical […]