IKEA has plans to become a clean energy provider. This does not imply that they are going to stop selling furniture, but it does show that they are interested in opening other lines of business and continue betting on that sustainability in which they have been working for a long time. Although the best thing is that they would also allow you to be a kind of provider too.
IKEA and clean energy generation
IKEA announced something important for the future of the company, although for the moment it will only apply to its country of origin. The company known for its furniture and meatballs, although we are more attracted to its technological products such as the latest Symfonisk speaker box or Tradfri smart lights, wants to become a provider of renewable energy.
To achieve this the Swedish company has reached an agreement with Svea Solar. In this way, both will offer a service that allows customers of IKEA in Sweden to access electricity created through the photovoltaic and wind energy.
This electricity that comes from renewable sources will have a fixed cost of about 5 euros plus the variable depending on consumption and the price at which Svea Solar buys it from other clean energy generators. But there are some interesting details in the proposal itself.
The first is that those who generate this power must have a system that is no more than five years old. This is interesting because it would encourage investment in this type of energy, at least in the Swedish country, which is where they will first begin to offer all this.
The second is that there will be an application that will allow the user to know all the information regarding consumption precisely at all times. Important because this system does not use any type of batteries or PowerWall.
And third, the most interesting of all would be the possibility that IKEA would also give that users are the ones who can sell excess energy that they can produce with their own facilities and do not consume.
Thus, basically, what the new IKEA service would allow is to turn the user into a provider of clean energy as well. And that is interesting, because it could encourage many to bet on this type of energy whenever possible. Because not everyone has the ability to install solar panels.
Solstrale, the IKEA solar panels
La IKEA commitment to energy clean is nothing new. They have been offering for a long time Solstrale, some solar panels that its customers can install in their homes and which, thanks to agreements with local suppliers, is available in Sweden, Spain, France, Australia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland and the United Kingdom.
These same plates are the ones that would serve so that the energy that is produced and not consumed can be sold. So there will be users who could get the energy they consume practically free, they will only need the initial investment in the installation. Which must be measured in the long term, because it is true that they represent a significant initial expense. But if you meet the requirements, it could be an option to consider looking at the latest increases in the electricity bill.