Plug and play solar may soon be more widely available, thanks to Massachusetts’ Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE). With the help of a $5 million Department of Energy award in 2013 called the Sunshot Initiative, Fraunhofer has been hard at work on protoyping a solar photovoltaic (PV) system that homeowners can install themselves in hours, which includes automated permission from the utility company.

More information is available in the video below, and on the Department of Energy website.