You can easily buy the plug-and-play solar panels online and they were recently available in Brico stores as well. However, you are not allowed to use them in Belgium.
“Just like you need an adapter for your cell phone that converts direct current to alternate current, you also need an adapter that usually comes with the solar panels. You connect it between the solar panels and the socket and then it works like a traditional sun. panel installation,” Joannes Laveyne, energy researcher at Ghent University, explains how it works at Radio 1.
Usually two panels can be placed on a balcony. “These panels provide 300 to 600 watts of power, which is good for 10 to 20 percent of your annual consumption.”
Why are plug-and-play solar panels banned?
Joannes Laveyne explains why these solar panels are currently banned in our country. “These small inverters must comply with Belgian and European safety regulations.”
“A traditional solar panel installation is installed by an installer according to the rules of the art and an inspector comes to see if everything is safe. That’s completely different if you install straight into the socket.”
“There can be problems with overloading. Imagine you have an old installation and your wiring is not completely up to the rules, and if this could cause problems.”
It is allowed in Holland and Germany and Joannes Laveyne suspects that the rules will be changed in Belgium as well. “My suspicion is that in Belgium they will make an exception for these balcony venues up to a limited capacity. ”
2024-08-04 18:30:22
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