One shared system, or one per house?

Every house gets its own. At Elvy there is no shared system to own, split or decide about: the heat pump, the solar panels and the battery sit in your house, and Elvy owns and maintains them. The community association buys nothing, borrows nothing and is not responsible for anybody else's contract. What is shared is the installation, and the better price that can follow from doing it at the same time.

Below we go through who owns what, why it is simpler for an association, what you actually share, and what applies if you already have something shared.

Elvy does. The equipment is the house's, but it is ours to own and look after, and that is included in the monthly price. You pay nothing upfront and take no loan, because the products are financed through operating leases that we carry.

That means there is no investment to divide between the households. Nobody has to work out who paid for what, and nobody has to guarantee anybody else's share.

Because the association never becomes a party to it. There is no joint purchase to decide on at a meeting, no joint loan to sign, and no shared system to maintain when it is ten years old.

The contract runs between Elvy and the individual household, exactly as it does for a homeowner getting in touch alone. Whoever wants in signs for themselves, and whoever does not stays out without it affecting the neighbours.

The timing, not the technology. When several houses in the same area are installed at once we plan one job instead of many separate ones, and that saving can go back into the price for all of you.

You do not share a heat pump, a meter or a solar installation. Everyone has their own system, their own energy analysis and their own monthly price.

That depends on what you have, and it is a question for the conversation rather than for an article. The starting point is that every household gets its own system, because that is how the subscription is built.

Get in touch and tell us how it looks where you are, and we will look at the area and say what is possible. It costs nothing to ask, and nobody commits until they have seen their own proposal.

The subscription belongs to the household, not to the street. A neighbour selling up affects neither your system nor your price, and there is no joint commitment left behind with the others.

What happens to the contract in a sale is its own question, and we have a separate guide about it. The short answer is that the contract is tied to the house and transfers to the new owner along with the property.