Robinsun Performance Balcony

In short: up to 50% of the electricity cost.

A plug & play solar kit produces solar energy for self consumption at home. The energy it produces is used directly by your household appliances. This avoids your household having to buy that energy from your power company, lowering your power bills.

Your savings are therefore determined by

• how much energy your kit produces
• how much you pay your power company per kWh, with all extra costs and taxes included

For example, if your kit produces 1.500 kWh per year and you pay €0,30/kWh to your power company, you save €450 per year (1.500 kWh x €0,30/kWh = €450). You can calculate how much you can save at your home address with our Savings Calculator.

How much the savings are on your overall electricity bill depends on how much you consume in total. A house consumes much more than an apartment, so the effect of a solar kit is likely higher for an apartment. The more people you are in the household, the higher your total consumption. Since plug & play solar kits are limited to 800 W by law, for households of 1-3 people the savings of a plug & play solar kit will be higher as a percentage of total electricity consumption than for larger households that consume more. Also, if you have a lot of high consumption devices on for a lot of time, like air conditioners, water boilers, ovens etc, your consumption is likely much higher than the 800 W of peak output your kit can deliver.

But take into consideration that some savings is better than no savings at all. And the higher your energy consumption is, the more likely it is that you will consume 100% of your kit’s power, maximizing your economic returns.

In short: absolutely yes.

Your terrace might offer you a variety of options to install your plug & play solar kit. Select the location with the most sunshine exposure, no shade, and where an installation is safe. Customers with bigger terraces (like roof tops) generally prefer to use our Performance kits with a 20° mount, since these give the highest production levels, are very easy to set up (see video) and can be moved quickly if needed.

If you have a pergola on your terrace, you might want to use that structure to put panels on it, for example with a Basic Performance kit. If your pergola has no inclination, you can add one with our 20° mount and fix that to the pergola.

Your terrace railing might also be a good location to install a kit, although you should consider the safety aspect of hanging 20-25 kg solar panels on your railing. We don’t recommend that for railings higher than 4 meters and with pedestrian traffic under them. For these installations, our Light kits are the far better option.

You can also drill your kit to a wall, we have mount structures for this application as well.

In short: much easier than you might think.

A plug & play solar kit generates energy from the sun with its solar panels. The micro inverter converts the panels’ AC power into DC power used in your household. A special cable connects the micro inverter to a normal Schuko plug in your home, feeding your kit’s power into your household’s power circuit.

That circuit is like a system of canals. At different points there are devices that consume energy. The sum of that energy consumption is what at the end of the canal is fed from your power company into your household. Your power meter counts how much that power is at any time.

If you now connect a plug & play solar kit to your canal, that kit immits power into that network. The connected devices use that power first. If you have several power circuits at home, these all meet at the distribution panel, that is in turn connected to your power meter and the grid. If there is excess power in the circuit your kit is connected to, it will spill over first to your other circuits that are demanding energy.

Check out our explanation video on how this circuit works.