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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August

Upper floor of a yellow building with a solar panel installed on the outside of a metal balcony.
DIY solar panels are popular in Germany, where they are known as Balkonkraftwerke (balcony power plants). Photograph: Ronald Rampsch/Alamy

British households will be able to buy plug-in solar panels later this summer after the government changed the law so the UK’s biggest retailers could bring them to market for the first time.

People across the country will be able to join the millions across Europe generating their own electricity using “balcony solar panels” from 27 August, according to legislation passed last week.

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