After unveiling plans to become the world's largest residential solar retailer in March, IKEA has begun its charge with the launch of its branded "Solar Shops" and an online portal for homeowners to purchase their own systems. This is the good news that the U.K. domestic solar market needed, after a terrible start to 2016, which saw home installations drop around 80% from the same time last year. IKEA UK backed up its launch of the "Solar Shops" with its own research, which found that 33% of homeowners in the U.K would like to invest in solar panels. It found that homeowners are most concerned with cutting electricity bills, and that the average homeowner in the U.K. could save up to 50% if they installed solar panels. The systems that are offered by IKEA are paid off in approximately 11 years, and will continue to generate free, clean energy after that. "IKEA's brilliant initiative is making solar part of people's everyday lives and that is exactly what is needed if we are to tackle climate change," commented Solar Trade Association's CEO, Paul Barwell. IKEA has recruited one of the world's oldest solar companies, Solarcentury, to be its business ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...