Comment on Solar power and storage prices have dropped almost 90%

• Octavio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  About a third of the houses in my neighborhood have gone solar. My household was one of the first to do it about five years ago and every time I go for a walk I notice a new one that popped up. Our solar system payment is about half what our electric bill used to be and we make more electricity than we use every month of the year, even with charging a plug-in hybrid car. Far from “no one is going to do it.” I frankly don’t understand why more people don’t do it.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weird, here we got 11kW solar panels with inverter and 7½ kW battery for USD $12900,- and complete installation (starting monday next week) is USD $ 4300,-

  So clearly the panels are way more expensive, even if we had bought a much smaller system, and that is in Denmark, where skilled workers are among the highest paid in Europe. AND on a ceramic tiled roof, which is the most demanding and expensive to have it installed on.

  This is a completely new solar panel installation, which should begin next week. so prices are fresh as they are now here.

  PS:

  For the above prices the hardware needed for installation is included with the panels.But I think that’s standard.

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Insurance companies have a lot of bullshit rules in certain states about the roof(Florida) which drives up the costs to install.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That sucks, seems like an opening for an Insurance company to capture some market share. Unless of course it’s all one big cartel.

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• brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is why I pay extra for my co-op to source it. Cheaper to build/maintain solar/wind farms

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  • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Keyword coop. People hate sharing here. It’s like a “socialist threat” to their autonomy.

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