• HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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    6 days ago

    Though heat pumps are still quite expensive in Germany. An installation for a single-family home including solar panels and battery can easily cost North of 30,000 EUR, which is up to three times the cost of the hardware. In theory, it should be a gigantic business opportunity to provide heat pump installation services there from Danish, Netherlands, or Polish companies.

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      6 days ago

      A reasonable sized solar power system with around 10kWp and 10kWh battery costs at least 16k€ in Germany when done by a professional. Depending on your power consumption in general this can be a bad investment even with a heat pump. Therefore I would separate this from the costs of a hwat pump, since it is not strictly required. Especially since you can get energy plans selling power for ~26ct/kWh.

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        6 days ago

        Ridiculously expensive when you compare to the prices of balcony solar systems which are just plugged intoa wall socket.

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          4 days ago

          Absolutely, the material cost for such a system is about 7-10k strongly dependent on the battery. The other ~10k is for setting stuff up (which takes about 1-2days).

          The small balcony systems can be setup by pretty much everyone. They also have the best ROI compared to bigger energy producers.

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        6 days ago

        It is 100% separate. I have two heat pumps and no solar yet (mostly because the initial cost). I hope to do solar soon but heat pumps made a lot of sense even without the solar