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IKEA to sell PV panels in all UK stores
The Swedish furniture retailer is to sell low-cost PV panels at all its UK stores, thanks to the collaboration with Haenergy Holding Group.
The Swedish furniture giant IKEA has recently launched an experimental program in its English stores. Given the company’s devotion to sustainability practices, from now on, there will also be solar panels directly sold to customers next to Swedish-inspired furniture. The purpose of this initiative is to make solar panels affordable and easily available. In this way, also solar energy will become accessible for everyone.
In the English stores, customers can purchase a standard 3,36 kW photovoltaic system for as little as £ 5,700 (equal to $ 9,200), or choose a solar panel finance package and pay nothing upfront.
IKEA’s project has been made possible in partnership with the Chinese energy giant Haenergy Hoding Group, manufacturer of thin film solar panels. Concerning solar systems, once purchased, Haenergy will provide highly trained solar advisors proceeding to the system installation after having designed it using a simulation tool from its store. In this way, the do-it-yourself formula is avoided.
The pilot project started last July in the IKEA’s headquarter in Lakeside with positive and encouraging results - showing a solar system purchased every day - is supposed to arrive in all the 17 UK stores in the next 10 months. To this end, Joanna Yarrow, Ikea's head of sustainability in the UK and Ireland, said: "We know that our customers want to live more sustainably and we hope working with Hanergy to make solar panels affordable and easily available helps them do just that."
In the next year, the new project IKEA launched will be exported in stores out of Great Britain, and not only in European countries, but also in the rest of the world.
In the English stores, customers can purchase a standard 3,36 kW photovoltaic system for as little as £ 5,700 (equal to $ 9,200), or choose a solar panel finance package and pay nothing upfront.
IKEA’s project has been made possible in partnership with the Chinese energy giant Haenergy Hoding Group, manufacturer of thin film solar panels. Concerning solar systems, once purchased, Haenergy will provide highly trained solar advisors proceeding to the system installation after having designed it using a simulation tool from its store. In this way, the do-it-yourself formula is avoided.
The pilot project started last July in the IKEA’s headquarter in Lakeside with positive and encouraging results - showing a solar system purchased every day - is supposed to arrive in all the 17 UK stores in the next 10 months. To this end, Joanna Yarrow, Ikea's head of sustainability in the UK and Ireland, said: "We know that our customers want to live more sustainably and we hope working with Hanergy to make solar panels affordable and easily available helps them do just that."
In the next year, the new project IKEA launched will be exported in stores out of Great Britain, and not only in European countries, but also in the rest of the world.
