Who is an energy subscription for, and who is it not?

An energy subscription suits you if you live in a house, want a predictable monthly cost for power and heat, and would rather skip both the investment and the running of it. It does not suit you if you live in a flat, want to own the system yourself, or do not want to commit for fifteen years.

The clearest group is homeowners with a waterborne system who are tired of the bill looking different every month. You pay a fixed amount, and that amount covers the installation, the heating and the household electricity. January costs the same as July.

The second group would need to replace a heat pump anyway. Facing an investment of a couple of hundred thousand kronor, the question is no longer whether you want new equipment but how it gets paid for. The subscription is one of the answers, and the only one that needs no money up front.

The third group rarely says it out loud: the people who simply do not want to deal with it. Somebody has to choose the equipment, book the installer, keep track of service and work out whether the system is running as it should. With a subscription that is our job, for fifteen years.

If you live in a flat we cannot help you yet. That is a limit rather than a phrasing: the system sits on and inside the house, and a flat has neither the roof nor the plant space. Register your interest and we will get in touch if it becomes possible.

If you want to own the equipment, the subscription is the wrong product. Elvy owns and operates the system commercially during the term, and the legal title sits with the financing partner. That split is exactly what keeps the service in place even if Elvy is not, but it also means the system is not yours in the meantime. You can buy it out when the fifteen years are up.

If fifteen years is too long, that is a fair reason to say no. The term is what makes a fixed price with no deposit possible, so it is not negotiable. It is not a trap either: if you move, the buyers can take over the contract on the same terms, you can buy the installation out when you leave the property, or we remove it.

And if you expect to do the job better yourself, you may well be right. Anyone who enjoys optimising their own system and following the spot price will not miss us. The subscription is built for the opposite.

We run an energy analysis of your specific house before anything is quoted, so there is no checklist to tick in advance. Two things are still worth knowing early, because they affect the timeline more than anything else.

The roof is your responsibility as the property owner. If it is old or in poor condition we recommend replacing it first, and that order then decides when the installation can happen. If you are unsure, have a surveyor look at it before you go further.

And the grid fee is not included. You keep getting an invoice from your grid owner whatever you choose. The variable part drops considerably, though, because much of the electricity is produced and controlled in the house instead of bought when it is most expensive.

By letting someone run the numbers on the house. We publish no list price, because a general price would be a guess: the cost is built from the size, condition, consumption and location of your house. The analysis is free and ends in a figure, not a range.

And if the answer is that it does not suit you, we say so. A subscription that does not add up for the house does not add up for us either, since we live with the system for fifteen years.