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Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

Here in Belgium there used to be big government subsidies for solar panels 5-10 ago.

Now the same wattage battery + solar setup without any government subsidies is a good chunk cheaper than that time with the large subsidies.

Pretty cool and shows the power of government renewables subsidies. A huge percentage of houses in Belgium have solar panels now. (and electricity still costs 0.30€/kWh average because of fossil fuel energy lobbies)

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Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As your northern neighbors. We did subsidize it too, but now the privatized energy companies started whining that there wasn’t enough capacity, so now they charge you for creating free energy

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- ammonium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You guys shouldn’t complain, you still have saldering (net metering) ánd get money for the electricity you have left which is still a huge subsidy.
  
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- iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes I’m considering buying a high power laser so I can send the energy back into space instead of paying the power companies for the privilege of giving them electricity.
  
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  - Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Great idea! Some inspiration right here :
    
    what-if.xkcd.com/13/
    
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sirboozebum@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
4 million households in Australia have solar panels.

They are great value.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

electricity still costs 0.30€/kWh average because of fossil fuel energy lobbies.

This is the price of guaranteed electricity delivered to your doorstep. We can’t get rid of gas fired power stations and kms of electricity grid network yet.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m fairly sure that all newly built houses in the UK require solar by law.

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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  All the new houses around here with no solar would indicate that is not true. They’re not even required to have a south facing roof.
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    At least here in California, having solar panels on a non south facing roof usually only reduces production by 10-20%, as long as it’s not entirely north facing. Solar systems are often slightly undersized - it’s more cost effective to size it so it handles average load rather than the summer peaks you only see for a few weeks per year - so the actual difference for a given system may be less.
    
    With my system, I see the best output from south-east facing panels since they get the morning sun. West facing panels are also fairly popular here due to time-of-use electricity plans. Some electricity plans have peak pricing from 4 to 9 pm, so people want to try and collect as much sunlight as possible during that period before sunset.
    
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    Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    The UK is a lot further north, and it’s probably not a massive loss.
    
    It was enough to prevent me getting “free” solar panels (while that was a thing) though, so I’m still salty about that.
    
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- bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Same here in California
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They’re installing ridiculously small systems so that they’re barely compliant.
    
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  - humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It is very poorly implemented. “Builder grade” solar panels in a “smallest compliant” configuration with no concern for architecture to benefit from solar takes place. Builders are intentionally putting the shittiest solar to reduce value of the homes they build so that they can complain about the policy.
    
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