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  • We wanted to make the solar energy available to every single household in Lithuania, and we took it to the extreme.

  • Lithuania's solar parks are helping apartment dwelling citizens power their houses with clean energy.

  • Residents come by solar panels located in solar parks up to 30 miles away from home, the ideal solution for those who want to be green but don't have the rights to install panels on their shared roots.

  • Andreas Kavaliauskas is head of the private client department at energy holding company Igniters Group.

  • We want to make the solar electricity available to the majority of the population, so that is the main goal, because before this this platform, the customers could only put the solar plant on their roof.

  • But not everyone living houses right.

  • We have a lot off around half of the population living in apartments in Lithuania, and they had no ability to produce electricity from solar themselves.

  • Theo company says customers could make big savings using energy from the solar parks.

  • With electricity bills slashed by up to 70% fatalities, Plunks nous bought a 1.5 kilowatts panel located at one such solar park.

  • You invest a front but then for the next 2025 years, you safe on electricity costs.

  • So with this zero interest rate environment, it's It's small, but good investment.

  • Onda.

  • Another thing that you contribute Thio did the society's s basically lutterus less pollution because solar energy is one off the cleanest and in the best sources off energy.

  • So so you gain you gain for yourself and society against us.

  • Well, customers have to pay fees for maintenance, such as cleaning the panels on also to the national grid to bring electricity to their houses.

  • But for many, it's still worth it, because if you wanted Thio, install on your rooftop, so it z ah, lot of work to do.

  • You have thio convince your your neighbors you have, you know, for yourself, take care off this installation, find the suppliers, and for me, it's easier that, you know, by paying money you get, you get the solution.

  • Lithuania aims to get a third of the country receiving electricity from people's own solar panels.

  • By 2030.

We wanted to make the solar energy available to every single household in Lithuania, and we took it to the extreme.

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