Plug & Play Solar Kit

A Plug & Play Solar Kit is an energy generating device for households that want to produce their own renewable energy for self consumption. Kits can easily be self-installed by anybody, without the need of an electrician or certified installer. If you know how to set up a simple piece of furniture and how to plug in an appliance, you can for sure set up your Plug & Play Solar Kit. This simplicity in setup allows everybody to participate in our fight against climate change, generating renewable energy at home for immediate self consumption.

At Robinsun, we offer different kinds of kits. The first difference is the power output of the kits. EU regulations allow kits up to 800 W output to be exempt from many norms and registration requirements. To be considered Plug & Play Solar Kits, they need to stay within the 800 W limit. Our Plug & Play Solar Kits with one panel are of 300 or 400 W output, depending on the type of panel they use. Kits of two panels are of 600 or 800 W output. We offer two types of solar panels for our kits. Our Robinsun Light 300 and Light 600 Plug & Play Solar Kits use lightweight, flexible panels that are extremely easy to mount. We recommend those if you want to mount your kit alone, or install it anywhere higher than a first floor, especially if there is pedestrian traffic under your kit installation. This is for safety reasons.

Robinsun Performance Plug & Play Solar Kits use conventional panels that are more performant, but also heavier. These Plug & Play Solar Kits are better installed by 2 people. We have kits for many installation locations, like balconies, pergolas, walls, gardens or flat roofs. And for the Robinson Crusoe’s of this world, the DIY creative ones, we offer our Robinsun Performance Basic kits that come without a mount structure, and that you can fix however you like. Just make sure you mount your Plug & Play Solar Kit safely. By purchasing a Plug & Play Solar Kit and promoting solar energy in society, you not only benefit yourself, but also the environment. The energy transition is a mission that concerns us all. Generating solar energy through a Plug & Play Solar Kit promotes renewable energies, which are respectful of nature and do not emit harmful greenhouse gases like fossil fuel powered energy.

Save the planet, and your wallet!

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: 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’ DC power into AC 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.