I anticipate that this story will take several chapters to discover the answer; in this part we take the first, somewhat intuitive, step to explore the initiatives of installing a solar generation project at home.
Yesterday I started to develop a solar generation project in my house to integrate it to the grid, central idea to use also a bi-directional meter to be able to supply part of my consumption and also sell the surplus to the distribution company.
Instinctively I started to think about how to organize it on paper, the methodology of project management, design thinking, the financial model, to integrate myself as a pro-sumer to the energy transition.
Then I put the blank sheet of paper and simplified the conversation with myself, to quickly reduce the uncertainty and look for viability I enthusiastically undertook a trip to a shopping center where I knew there was a supplier that offered solar panels, in the background I was looking to know if there is already a minimum viable product that would meet my need and go from there.
I quickly obtained a bid for a project – turnkey all-inclusive contract – and took it to my family board of directors – my wife – who asked me for more explanations of the business model, pros and cons, risks, guarantees, possibility of alternative investments and the status of some pending ones, plus three quotations.
There began the next stage.