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Presentation to the Oakland Realtors Association
1. The document discusses how investments in solar energy and energy efficiency can impact home values and the real estate business. It summarizes findings from a study that found homes fitted with solar energy systems sell at a premium of $3.90 to $6.40 per watt of solar capacity and sell faster than comparable homes without solar. 2. The document then provides information on energy use trends and costs in California and the US. It notes that electricity prices are rising faster than income growth, causing energy costs to consume a larger portion of household budgets and driving consumer interest in solar energy. 3. The document concludes by discussing approaches to valuing solar energy systems when selling a home and factors to consider when transferring solar le
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Realtors act as advisors to homeowners; their advise is considered valuable by homeowners planning home improvements
- #6 Will begin by presenting you a high level overview on the state of electricity prices. Utilities business is not growing in volume, their only remedy for value creation is through increasing utility rates
- #7 Consumers are baulking, choosing to adopt Solar Energy solutions as a means to cap their electricity prices.
- #8 California has one of the highest utility rates in the country
- #10 Trajectory of PG&E’s rate increase plans as laid before the CPUC
- #11 Utility bills constitute the second largest component of household maintenance expenses
- #12 If we extrapolate historical PG&E price hikes of 7% out into the future how much would a Californian paying a utility bill of avg $150 have to shell out over a period of 25 years
- #15 Although photovoltaic (PV) penetration in the United States is increasing rapidly, properly valuing homes with PV systems remains a barrier to PV deployment. Previous studies show that PV homes command sales price premiums. Still, some appraisers and other home valuers assign no value to a home’s PV system, and those who do often cannot find comparable home sales to help determine the PV premium. This has spurred the development of alternative methods of valuing PV homes, including the use of an income approach (based on the present value of PV energy produced over its useful lifetime) and the replacement cost approach (based on the present installed cost equivalent of the PV system). However, those approaches have just begun to have been validated against actual market premiums. Moreover, the drivers underlying PV home premiums are not well understood, which may deter some appraisers from assigning value to PV systems.
- #16 The premium ranged from $3.90 to $6.40 per watt of capacity, but tended most often to be about $5.50 per watt. This, the study said, “corresponds to a home sales price premium of approximately $17,000 for a relatively new 3,100-watt PV system (the average size of PV systems in the study).”And the bottom line: “These average sales price premiums appear to be comparable to the investment that homeowners have made to install PV systems in California, which from 2001 through 2009 averaged approximately $5/watt.”The study speculates about the reasons, suggesting that “new home builders may also gain value from PV as a market differentiator, and have therefore often tended to sell PV as a standard (as opposed to an optional) product on their homes and perhaps been willing to accept a lower premium in return for faster sales velocity.”
- #17 Although appraisers might expect, because of the existing analyses, to find some PV premium in the market, they also would be expected to rely on “comparable sales” near any target home (the most common method used by appraisers) to corroborate that expectation and determine the level of the premium of the target home based on market conditions at the time of appraisal. Rarely is there a high enough density of “comparable” PV home transactions near target homes to enable such an analysis. In part to fill this methodological gap, other valuation methods not typically used for residential properties have been proposed for PV homes, such as the income approach and the replacement cost approach, (referred to, for the remainder of the document, as simply the cost approach2) both of which are familiar techniques to appraisers, underwriters, and assessors and other valuers for use with commercial properties (Klise et al., 2013b). The income approach assumes that the value of an asset is developed using theThe cost approach assumes an asset should be worth approximately what the cost to replace it with a similar asset would be. Following this logic, a home with PV would enjoy a premium equal to what it would cost to install a PV system of similar age and size on a similar home without PV. Using the income approach as a guide, Sandia National Laboratories and Energy Sense Finance created a Microsoft Excel-based downloadable worksheet that can be used by valuation professionals to predict the value a PV home might have in the market.3 The PV Value® tool has been received favorably by the lending and appraisal community
- #19 Going forward Commercial properties will be valued on their Energy Efficiency. Legislation in San Francisco is mandating the transfer of commercial properties be accompanied by a Energy Efficiency benchmark report. Commercial properties are another kettle of fish and matter of discussion for another day.