The latest appliance from IKEA: Solar power panels

The flat-pack furniture company wants to take green energy mainstream

IKEA solar panels
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan))

Over the next 10 months, Swedish furniture giant IKEA will begin selling solar panels at 17 stores across the U.K.

It's the first step in a plan to take solar mainstream, and IKEA sees Britain as a fertile testing ground. A combination of government subsidies and a program that allows individuals to sell excess power to the grid makes the $9,500 price tag for an 18-panel, 3.36-kilowatt system a little easier to swallow.

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Carmel Lobello is the business editor at TheWeek.com. Previously, she was an editor at DeathandTaxesMag.com.