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If you are talking about Germany, that is no longer true - landlords can not deny installations without sound reason:
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/balkonkraftwerke-mieter-gesetzesaenderung-100.html
The surrounding laws were updated July this year, so it is a recent change.
If your balcony collapses due to 800W worth of solar it'd also collapse due to a couple of planters or a fat friend coming over so I guess you should take such worries as an admission on their part and withhold rent until they prove that the balcony is safe to use.
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment.
Yes and no, I think withholding rent is a quite German thing (or, rather, courts siding with you when you do it) and "it's not structurally sound" sounds like a thing rabidly anti-solar landlords would come up with to get around the law.