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Whenever I see news like this one I feel bad for us in Greece... we have so much sun yet we don't utilize it to the maximum we could for generating electricity and our KWh price is one of the most expensive in Europe. It's a pitty the government doesn't invest in solar or encourage households to do so :-(

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Just do it. Don’t wait for the govt to tell you. Solar is almost free at this point.

I see this in so many sunny countries, which is such a shame. So what prevents you from just installing panels on your roof?

GDP per capita in Greece is €29,696, in Germany it is €65,303. Rich countries can afford to decarbonise more quickly.

Solar panels are basically free at that point, they're pay themselves in <2 years in Greece. We're not talking about a 20k euros investment, even 1k would go a long way

Even way less than that. 1000W solar panels + 800W micro inverter can be bought for roughly 250€ right now.

Has it become that cheap? Do you have a link?

Yeah, it is incredible: https://www.netto-online.de/balkonkraftwerk-1000w-800w-solar...

For those not speaking German: Base price (incl. tax) for the bundle is 210€, plus 60€ shipping, minus 30€ sale, so 240€ for a complete set, including tax and delivery.

Both Germany and Pakistan installed roughly 17 GW of new solar in 2025 [1,2]. Pakistan's GDP per capita is about €1500.

[1] https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-the-solar-revolut...

[2] https://eu.globalsolar.store/news/78/germany-installs-175-gw...

Athens can’t build flat, stable, standardised side walks. The Italians own and operate their trains and when 50 students died in a very preventable head on collision no one has been held accountable in any real fashion.

Solar panels? They gotta fix the brain drain first. Anyone with the capability to bounce understandably does.

The only people with money are Israeli and Qatari real estate investors.

In Greece there is an unjustified support for natural gas. They deliberately stop renewables adoption (no more netmetering, no more batteries) because the Prime minister sleeps at the same bed with gas-people (like Mytilinaios). We have to burn gas from a few to many hours per day.

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