The Ikea store in Southampton now offers solar panels.
(Credit: Ikea)
Today, Ikea customers in Southampton, England, can stroll into the big blue and yellow store and plunk down $9,200 for a solar panel array for their semi-detached home. Ikea, which has been installing industrial-size solar arrays on its store roofs for years, has just started to roll out home solar systems for consumers in the UK.
Ikea’s move to sell solar panels was anticipated years ago with the company formally committing to green technologies. Southampton is the first store to offer the panels, made by Hanergy Solar UK, but more stores in Britain will be jumping onboard.
Steve Howard, Ikea’s chief sustainability officer, told the Associated Press, “In the past few years the prices on solar panels have dropped, so it’s a really good price now. It’s the right time to go for the consumers.” Howard also says Ikea plans to eventually sell the panels in other countries.
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