Selling excess electricity would be lucrative at the moment, but is hardly possible.
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Dusseldorf Over two million solar systems are now installed throughout Germany. Almost all of them are on house roofs. Their owners usually feed the self-generated green energy into the grid for a fixed amount – and given the currently high electricity prices on the exchange, they should be quite annoyed.
Photovoltaic companies are reporting these days that customers keep calling and asking about the possibility of selling the solar power from their own roof themselves. “We observe that many of our customers want to sell or even donate the excess solar power to friends or neighbors – for example in rented apartments,” says Tobias Schütt, co-founder and strategy manager of the solar service provider DZ-4 from Hamburg.
In Germany, due to the general conditions, this is hardly possible and also not economical, complain Schütt and other industry representatives. But that could change in the future. Mainly because the demand for solar power is constantly increasing.
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