Berkeley : la mairie financerait toutes les installations solaires

Berkeley Mayor Announces Plan To Make Solar Energy Financing Easier

A Berkeley, en Californie, le conseil municipal a approuvé le projet de payer la totalité de l'installation des panneaux solaires photovoltaiques et des systèmes solaires thermiques de n'importe quel propriétaire, dans sa localité, d'une maison ou d'un bâtiment commercial dans le but d'amplifier nettement l'utilisation locale de l'énergie renouvelable. Les propriétaires auraient la propriété des systèmes d'énergie solaires ; le coût sur 20 ans de l'installation étant  simplement repercuté sur leur facture annuelle d'impôt foncier.

C'est une initiative intéressante et fortement incitative qui pourrait être à suggérer, ou dans un premier temps à étudier par les collectivités de notre pays.

Berkeley Mayor announced a plan for his city to be the first in the US to allow property owners to pay for energy efficiency improvements and solar system installations as a long-term assessment on their individual property tax bills.

He said installations of solar electric and solar thermal systems are cost effective for many residential and commercial property owners with existing state and federal subsidies.

He said the advantage of his plan is that it eliminates two major financial hurdles to solar electric and solar water systems: the high upfront cost and the possibility that those costs will not be recovered when the property is sold.

The Mayor's chief of staff, said the average cost of a solar energy system for a residential property in Berkeley is around $20,000, which is a high up-front cost that scares off many potential users.

He said that under this plan, people who buy a solar energy system would have only minimal up-front costs and would instead pay off the system, as well as below-market-rate interest rates, as part of their property tax bill over 20 years.

-Source : http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5722780-