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How is the Return on Investment (ROI) calculated?

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Written by Divine Bunda-Rühl
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The return, or Return on Investment (ROI), describes the savings from your PV system in relation to your total investment.

Annual ROI in percent:
ROI over the entire lifetime of a PV system (20 years) in percent

ROI (annual) % = (Annual Savings / Total Investment) × 100

ROI₍20 years₎ (%) = ((Annual Savings × 20) − Total Investment) / Total Investment × 100

The annual savings are composed of the surplus PV electricity fed into the grid and the amount of purchased grid electricity.

  • For electricity fed into the grid, the current feed-in tariff is €0.07 per kWh.

  • For grid electricity, the kWh price is the one you enter under Electricity Consumption in the project.

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