How to raise the energy question with your neighbours

Say you are wondering, not that you have decided. You can get an energy subscription together without anybody committing: the contract is signed per household, there is no minimum number, and anyone who does not want it stays out. So you do not need a finished proposal, a calculation or a yes from anybody before you get in touch with us. Asking around is enough.

Below we go through who usually asks, what you can actually promise, how many of you there need to be, and what happens next.

Usually it ends up being whoever read up on it first. It does not have to be somebody on the board, and it makes no difference whether you are a community association (samfällighet) or just a few houses on the same street.

What you say can be roughly this: that there is such a thing as an energy subscription, that a heat pump, solar panels and a battery are included for a fixed monthly sum, that everyone signs for themselves, and that it can work out better if several houses in the area do it at the same time. Then they can think about it. You are not a salesperson, you are the neighbour who looked something up.

You cannot promise a price, and you should not try. We set no list price, because every house gets its own energy analysis and its own monthly price based on how it is built and used. That is as true for your house as for your neighbour's.

What you can say is what is included: a heat pump, solar panels and a battery, installation, service and monitoring, no upfront cost, and a price fixed for 15 years and adjusted only by the consumer price index. If several of you are in the same area the installation is more efficient, and that gain can go back into the price.

None. There is no minimum number, and you do not have to have counted heads before you ask us. Two neighbours is enough to make it worth a conversation.

The more houses in the same area, the more everyone can gain, because one coordinated installation is more efficient than many separate ones. But that is an advantage that grows, not a threshold to clear. If you are unsure whether there are enough of you, the answer is almost always that there are.

Nothing happens. This is per household, not a decision for the whole association at once, so anybody who does not want it simply stays out. You need no meeting decision, no vote and no agreement.

It works the other way round too. If one house does not suit it technically, that does not affect the others. Everyone gets their own proposal and says yes or no for themselves.

We look at the area and contact the person who wrote to us, not the neighbours. Nobody else in the area hears from us until they get in touch themselves, which is worth knowing before you ask around: you are not letting a sales team loose on the street.

Then we run an energy analysis per household for those who want to take part, and plan the installation as one job instead of many separate ones. Everyone sees their own proposal before deciding. We cover the whole of Sweden, so it is the area and the houses that decide, not where in the country you live.