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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Tuesday, June 9th. I'm Imani Moise for the Wall Street Journal.

As electricity prices rise, some people are turning to DIY solutions to keep their energy bills in check.

We're breaking down the trend that's starting to catch on in the U.S.

Then, as schools around the world grapple with the impact of AI on learning, one country

is giving nearly 20,000 high schoolers their own chat GPT accounts.

We'll explain this national experiment and what it could mean for the future of education.

But first, more Americans are figuring out that you can use solar panels to pump electricity into your home without hiring a professional.

It's called plug-in solar, or sometimes balcony solar, because that's where many people end up putting the panels.

Until recently, these systems existed in a legal gray area in the U.S., but states are starting to warm up to the idea.

Utah and Maryland have legalized plug-in solar, while several other states, including New York and Virginia,

have passed laws clearing the way for the technology. And it's already taken off in parts of Europe, where more than a million systems have been

installed in Germany alone. And it recently had one new convert in Maryland, our own Wall Street

Journal columnist Christopher Mims. He recently climbed onto his roof to give the technology a try,

and is here now to tell us all about it.

How do these solar panels work, and how do they compare to the pricero ones that you can have professionally installed?

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