Many solar panel installation projects fail due to incorrect or incomplete information and the lack of expertise of suppliers and installers, said Răzvan Ilie, Area Sales Manager at the Volt company.
“Most of the beneficiaries receive erroneous or incomplete information, including due to newly appeared providers who have no experience and mislead them. In addition, there are also design and implementation mistakes identified in the market”, stated Ilie, during the conference “Energy efficiency for the energy transition – Brașov”.
Other disadvantages are represented by the inconsistency of the authorities in relation to financing programs and the absence of clear implementation periods, the lack of experience of companies operating in this sector and the costs of purchasing and installing photovoltaic panels.
Volt company has projects in various phases of execution totaling approximately 225 MWp and has a team of 35 qualified and specialized employees in areas such as design, project management, procurement and legal.
Of the total, 30 projects are aimed at mounting solar panels on roofs, but the company also has seven ground-based photovoltaic projects underway with a cumulative power of 86 MW.
“We estimate that this year we will put into operation 15 MW and seven photovoltaic parks on the ground of 86 MW, which are ready to build”, stated Ilie.
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According to Ilie, the biggest advantage of being a prosumer is represented by the short amortization period of the investment. A residential photovoltaic project amortizes itself in a period of 4 or 5 years, but if it also benefits from a source of financing (such as European funds granted through various financing programs), the investment recovery period is reduced by another year.
The conference in Brașov was the first of a series of 5 scheduled by the Energynomics communication platform, the Romanian Fund for Energy Efficiency – FREE and the Directorate for Energy Efficiency within the Ministry of Energy. The project is financed by Norway Grants 2014-2021.