Want to lower your electricity bill and help power your home with an abundant renewable energy source — the sun?

OK, maybe you don't have a rooftop where you can install $20,000 to 30,000 worth of solar panels, get the permits and hire a crew to put them in.

But there's a simple, affordable solution for people who own houses or condos, or are renting an apartment.

Plug-in balcony solar panels are a do-it-yourself clean energy solution that not only help power appliances and devices in homes but lower electricity costs at a time when the cost of power — along with everything else — is rising.

They've become popular in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, as well as in the U.S. While these plug-and-play units aren't readily available in Canada, and could face bureaucratic hurdles in getting

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