Green Planet Energy
Hamburg (ots)
While many landlords are still hesitant about tenant electricity projects due to economic and technical hurdles, tenants are much more interested: almost two thirds of them state that they “definitely want to use solar power directly from the roof of their house ” (49.3%) or “rather yes” (15%). This is shown by a current survey by the market and opinion research institute CIVEY on behalf of the eco-energy cooperative Green Planet Energy.
According to the survey, 46% of property owners are more or less interested in realizing a tenant electricity project. However, around a third of the homeowners surveyed would “definitely not” or “rather not” set up a PV system in order to supply their own tenants with electricity from there.
“Tenant electricity is the right instrument for bringing the energy transition to cities across the board and in a socially just way,” says Maximilian Weiß, energy policy officer at Green Planet Energy, “however, even years after the introduction of the Tenant Electricity Act, there are still bureaucratic hurdles that in many places prevent implementation.”
Tenant power means that renewable solar power is generated on a building and consumed directly by the tenants living there. The landlord is responsible for the installation of the necessary technology and the investments. Necessary residual amounts of electricity continue to come from the grid in the tenant electricity model. Harvesting electricity from the house roof also reduces electricity costs, which is why tenant electricity tariffs are usually priced below the local basic supplier tariffs.
It is therefore not surprising that, according to the CIVEY survey for tenants, the prospect of cheaper electricity prices (61.5%) is central to the great interest in tenant electricity, followed by the knowledge that the electricity used was generated locally (42.9 %) and sustainable (41.6%). 41.6% of the tenants also cited independence from fossil energy as a motivation. “People want to be sure that they are actually getting ecologically high-quality solar power. Alternatives to tenant electricity, where you only get a financial bonus and no electricity supply, therefore miss the consumer’s wishes,” says Weiß.
According to the survey, 33.9% of tenants are even willing to invest money themselves in a photovoltaic system on the roof. “But the decisive factor is the financial commitment of the landlord: inside to ensure decentralized and renewable tenant electricity on their properties. Unfortunately, there are still numerous hurdles that slow down the motivation of homeowners: inside,” says Maximilian Weiß from Green Planet Energy . The main reason given by the landlords for this skepticism is that major structural measures (37.1%) are necessary to implement a solar system. 34.2% are deterred by the high level of bureaucracy or the lack of profitability (31.1%) of a tenant electricity project.
“The legislature now has the opportunity to finally improve the framework conditions for tenant electricity and should urgently use this opportunity in the sense of a social energy transition,” demands Maximilian Weiß.
This morning, the Bundestag is finally deliberating on the law to restart the digitization of the energy transition, which could be used to reform the necessary infrastructure for tenant electricity in particular. In the course of the legislative process, Green Planet Energy called for regulatory hurdles to be removed – for example through simplified digital electricity measurement concepts such as the virtual totalizer or more flexibility in the choice of meter operator.
Editorial notes: The survey was conducted at the beginning of April among 1,000 apartment tenants and property owners. The full survey results are available for download below ready. There you will also find a position paper from Green Planet Energy with suggestions for improving tenant electricity.
About Us: With a good 34,000 members and around 205,000 electricity and gas customers, the Green Planet Energy eco-energy cooperative is one of the most important eco-energy providers in Germany. The company emerged in 1999 under the name Greenpeace Energy from a power change campaign by the environmental protection organization Greenpeace and has been called Green Planet Energy since September 2021.
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