Praguers can build photovoltaics, the city is running applications for subsidies
“In the first phase, he fills in the address of an apartment or family house and states the basic parameters, such as the number of floors, the number of housing units and the like. The website will calculate the investment potential, explained Jaroslav Klusák, director of the newly established municipal company.
In practice, it will look like the Prague Renewable Energy Community will provide applicants, project assistance and help them prepare the application. Also prepare for the tender for construction documents. Thanks to subsidy programs such as the Modernization Fund or New Green Savings, homeowners can receive 40 to 50% of investment costs.
“We want to create favorable conditions for building family and apartment houses, homeowners’ associations, housing associations, sole proprietors and small and medium-sized businesses to build photovoltaic sources on rooftops,” said Petr Hlubuček (STAN), Environment Square.
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If the output of the installed production is up to 20 kWp, it is not necessary to go through the construction procedure and the construction can take two to three months. In the case of stronger performance, construction is already needed. The service life of the panels is estimated at up to 30 years.
One of the companies that will install the panels is the city company Technologie hl. m Prague (THMP). The involvement of the municipal company is to bring stability to the project and an opportunity for the city to maintain its impact on energy prices in the market. “Not a single sunny day should be in vain. There is nothing to prevent the first solar power plants from being set up right after the preparation and registration of projects, “said Tomáš Jílek, Chairman of the Board of Directors of THMP.
Thanks to their own electricity production, homeowners will save on electricity supplies from the grid. The company will also ensure the transmission of unused electricity to another member of the community on mutually advantageous terms. Photovoltaics is also being built on city buildings. Councilors have approved its construction for 27 buildings so far. They have about a hundred of them. According to Hlubučka, the city is fighting against the jump in energy prices in this way.