
Solar Prize, Handcuffs and PlusEnergy Buildings 723
installation and proposed a heat pump, was doing private business
by selling heat pumps. The municipality surrendered and the solar
installation is producing hot water for the four apartments until
today.
44.4.3.8 Solar energy instead of unconstitutional bureaucracy
On the 21st European PV Solar Energy Conference in Dresden in
September 2006, I heard that carpenter Paul Meury in Blauen,
canton of Basel-Country (BL), had been called to tear down his solar
installation that he had built in 1997 with the permission of the
municipality council. The town inhabitants had signed an initiative
against the demolition ...