Ever more efficient and durable, solar panels allow individuals to benefit from cheaper and greener electricity while increasing the value of their homes. These weighty arguments have prompted many French people to equip themselves in recent years. If you too want to take the plunge, here are some good reasons to opt for a photovoltaic system.
With climate change and skyrocketing energy prices, solar panels are seeing their popularity skyrocket. It must be said that they are a great way for the French to save on their electricity bills while preserving the planet.
The success of solar panels can also be explained by the existence since 2017 of a bonus for photovoltaic self-consumption. Paid by the EDF purchase obligation, it allows individuals to significantly reduce installation costs. This bonus is therefore a real incentive for people who are hesitant to take the plunge due to a lack of financial means. As a result, solar panels continue to thrive on French rooftops.
The advantages of photovoltaic panels
The democratization of photovoltaic panels has not escaped anyone, but their role remains mysterious to many. However, it is very simple. They were designed to transform light into electricity and thus provide a free, renewable and inexhaustible source of energy for our homes.
Solar panels allow you to save a lot of money on your energy bill, but that’s not their only advantage. Let’s take a look at their various advantages:
- Energy saving : allowing you to benefit from a free and unlimited source of energy, namely the sun, installing photovoltaic panels on the roof of your home leads to savings of up to 70% on your electricity bill;
- Reduction of CO2 emissions: solar panels are a means of producing 100% renewable electricity and therefore contribute to protecting the environment by emitting less CO2;
- Home valuation: With buyers increasingly sensitive to ecology and concerned about their energy balance, the presence of a photovoltaic system is a strong argument when you want to sell your home. Their presence justifies an increase in the price of your property on the market compared to a similar property not equipped.
How to reduce installation costs?
To encourage the development of renewable energy, the State has implemented aid aimed at enabling private individuals to finance their own energy work.
In practice, when they equip their homes with photovoltaic panels, private individuals can choose between selling the entire solar production or self-consumption with the resale of the electricity they do not consume.
Systems that choose self-consumption are entitled to a self-consumption bonus, decreasing and variable depending on the power of the system. Grid-connected photovoltaic systems with a power less than or equal to 3 kWp can also benefit from a reduced VAT rate of 10%.
Individuals who have chosen self-consumption with resale of excess electricity also benefit from the so-called purchase obligation. This allows them to feed unconsumed electricity into the grid by reselling it to an EDF OA at a price set by law. These purchase prices are set by decree and change every quarter.
If you want equip your home with solar panels we strongly advise you to turn to an expert in the sector such as Hellio. This personalized support will allow you to avoid unpleasant surprises, such as the many scams that abound on the market. It is also the guarantee of benefiting from all the assistance you are entitled to for your installation, French brand solar panels guaranteed for 30 years, RGE QualiPV qualified installers, as well as a labor guarantee.
This content was produced in collaboration with Hellio. The editorial staff of BFM IMMO did not participate in the production of this content.