On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 03:13:25 -0500, "John Keeney"
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:

Until we know how many of those KWHs you use per month, your
comparison needs modification.

I reckon I use maybe 1500 KWH/month. At your 5c/KWH, that's $75/month
(you guys get cheap power by the way). This equals say $1000/year.

1500 KWH/month = an average of 2.1 KW. But we have to generate this in
about say, 8 hours? So we need to have 3 times that to meet the
consumption. 6.3 KW

To buy the modules for this would cost, as I saw the listing (where I
did not see anything for $2/watt) around 2.8 * 6300 = $17500.

So I am seeing a 17 year payoff at your rates (about 9 at mine! :-)

As you say, that does not include any generation infrastructure,
batteries etc.

HOWEVER. When I moved here, it cost me $11000 to get the power put on
ten years ago. IT may be more than that now. That makes a considerable
difference. It brings the nett cost of installing SOLAR _panels_
(again not all the extra gear) down to around $6500.

I reckon it would also make a joke of "selling the power to the
authority, in that you waould have to have gear set up exactly to
their requirements, at some fantastic cost.

For instance, we asked to have the 33KV power _removed_ from our
place. We figured they would get some poles, wire, transformer etc.
Nope. The poles no longer met specs. The transformer likewise. We
wanted the power taken back to the boundary, and then we would supply
our own underground....$1000 to bury an earth pole at the base of the
power pole. It was going to cost us $8000 to have the power _removed_.

When I asked back when we first put the power in place, Solar was not
worth it. It _may_ be getting closer. I have to say that there is no
_way_ I would get solar panels at the prices shown. I would probably
pay triple. So it recedes again.


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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:46:25 -0500, "John Keeney"
wrote:

That's all nice, but the real question to be answered is:
"What's the cost per peek watt for your cells/modules?"

As low as $2 a Watt.
https://www.sunelec.com/Clearance/So...r_modules.html

Well, that sucks as compared to the 4-9 cents per kilowatt hour I
pay monthly. At 5 cents your looking at better than 27 years ROI
if the controllers & storage came for free (and no money cost).
And that's for close out stock.
What I was wondering was if the cells Martin was talking about
comes close to this price per watt.


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