Ikea's complete residence solar offer arrives in Australia

• Ikea has actually introduced its complete residence solar deal in Australia, making it the initial market outside of Europe in which consumers can purchase residence solar kits from its website. The firm has partnered with Solargain to bring solar to as lots of Aussie rooftops as possible.

From today, IKEA has begun offering Australian customers solar panels from its online shop, making it the very first market outside of Europe to obtain accessibility to the sustainable offer.

The brand-new Ikea home solar deal, Solstrale (which converts to Sunbeam), is made in cooperation with Solargain, among Australia's leading solar energy suppliers. Solargain CEO Keera Single stated that the Ikea partnership is the excellent means to seek the company's vision of helping much more Australians to experience the advantages of solar energy.

" In dealing with a seller like Ikea, we believe we can get to extra houses that have the ability to make the button to solar," Single claimed.

Ikea has been offering complete solar systems to its customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Italy considering that June in 2015. Yet this is the first time Australian clients have been qualified to such a simple solar-purchase procedure.

" Today's launch notes an essential day in the IKEA Australia company," stated Ikea Australia CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer Jan Gardberg. "And we really hope that this will motivate our consumers to live a much more sustainable day-to-day life by eliminating the obstacles to buying renewable energy."

The Solstrale system can cost anywhere between AU$ 3,500 ($ 2,425) to AU$ 7,000, depending on the dimension of the array. For AU$ 3,500, you obtain a 3 kW system, which Ikea quotes would pay itself off in about four years.

Interestingly, a distinct function of the Solstrale offer for the Australian market is that the panels come with a five-year assurance that the system will create at least 80% of what was estimated in a client's first quote.

Complete solar

Ikea got in the solar market in 2014 via its domestic rooftop sets, to which it added power storage options in 2017. In 2018, pv magazine caught up with Signe Antvorskov Krag, international growth leader of Ikea Home Solar Business, to review the global retailer's solar organisation design.

The version itself is simple: locate a Tier-1 distributor and also an EPC business in the local market, and after that deliver a turnkey solar option that takes all the complexity out of residence solar installation. According to Krag, the two most significant difficulties to mass retail solar is spreading the word and showing consumers that solar installation is not a complicated problem they'll have to carry out as well as upkeep themselves.

Each personalized designed Solstrale system consists of Trina Solar panels, a Growatt inverter, mounting system, and also full Clean Energy Council (CEC) approved installation. Customers can also dress up their system with power storage, clever meters or microinverters.

Ikea also offers PV components in Europe. Its complete home solar offer is readily available in Sweden, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the U.K.