On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:08:40 -0500, Summer Wind wrote:
> He will still pay 15.7 cents per kilowatt-hour for any power he buys from
> his local power company, but his solar system will replace $750 of utility
> company power annually. The system will pay for itself in 15 to 20 years,
> while insulating him from rising utility rates.
How much does he get for selling his power? Just what he does save while
not getting it from a company?
Here in Germany you got up to 57.4 Cents/kWh, currently it's 43.01
Cents/kWh, while you have to pay about 20 Cents/kWh.
15 to 20 years is not that much, just about 4.7 to 3.5 % return, if it
really is maintenance free (which it isn't).
> It's a tough time to be making solar panels - but a great time to be buying
> them: Prices have fallen 40 to 60 percent in the past year.
> Geoff Stenrick, who sells solar panels from his SimpleRay website in St.
> Paul, Minn., has been pitching "summer blowout" prices and "free shipping"
> on orders of more than $1,000. A 200-watt panel that was $987 is now $689.
> That's $3.45 per watt, a 30 percent drop. Just a year ago, $6 to $7 per watt
> was typical.
>
> "We are basically understaffed for the response we're getting from
> customers," Mr. Stenrick says. "The phone is jumping."
So price is too low or too high?
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