In the future, there will be a lot of focus on how much energy a house uses. There is broad political support for behaviour regulating incentives. An example could be a lower property tax, another future approach would be a progressive electricity pricing, which has already been suggested (low electricity usage = low electricity price, correspond-ingly, high consumption = higher electricity prices).
Therefore, investment in a solar panel plant makes sense. You lock your electricity price in the plant’s minimum 30-year lifetime, which then frees you from unpredictable fluctua-tions in the price of electricity over the next 30 years. A good comparison would be vari-able versus fixed rate loans.
Gaia has a clear vision that energy will be in short supply in the future. This, combined with green taxes could cause significant increases in the price of electricity in the future. To know your operating costs many years in advance will be an important part of setting the resale value of the house. Repayment times for a medium sized plant are under 20 years, which is considerably lower than the plant’s 20-30 year life expectancy.
Gaia Solar has developed six standard packages for energy renovations. You can read more about these at: www.altomsolceller.dk where you will also find links to external distributors.