Comments on: Beyond Subsidized Solar Power: The Path to Grid Parity http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/12/beyond-subsidized-solar-power-the-path-to-grid-parity/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 06:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: mds http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/12/beyond-subsidized-solar-power-the-path-to-grid-parity/#comment-6427 Mon, 18 May 2009 05:58:32 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2556#comment-6427 First Solar (CdTe) and Nanosolar (CIGS) claim to have already acheived $1/Wp. Actually, they both claim to have bypassed this. They’re very busy selling to OEMs and installing their own PV power plants. (7.5 cents/kWh for First Solar’s plant with Sempra in Nevada. Half the price of power in S. California. Kaching!) We won’t see this for the retail end until supply has caught up with demand …and maybe this will have to happen more than once. There’s a long way for retail prices to fall. In the mean time, I’m sure balance-of-system (BOS, i.e. rectifiers, mounting frames, wiring, etc.) and installation costs will continue to go down as the market grows and the competition heats up.

Basically, we already have the PV and Production technology for grid parity. We’re just waiting for production volume, BOS, and installation costs to catch up.

PV is the cell phone of the energy market. Shoebox phone PV today. i-phone PV tomorrow.

Most PV growth predictions will prove conservative in hindsight. Watch!

]]> By: mds http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/12/beyond-subsidized-solar-power-the-path-to-grid-parity/#comment-22858 Mon, 18 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2556#comment-22858 First Solar (CdTe) and Nanosolar (CIGS) claim to have already acheived $1/Wp. Actually, they both claim to have bypassed this. They’re very busy selling to OEMs and installing their own PV power plants. (7.5 cents/kWh for First Solar’s plant with Sempra in Nevada. Half the price of power in S. California. Kaching!) We won’t see this for the retail end until supply has caught up with demand …and maybe this will have to happen more than once. There’s a long way for retail prices to fall. In the mean time, I’m sure balance-of-system (BOS, i.e. rectifiers, mounting frames, wiring, etc.) and installation costs will continue to go down as the market grows and the competition heats up.

Basically, we already have the PV and Production technology for grid parity. We’re just waiting for production volume, BOS, and installation costs to catch up.

PV is the cell phone of the energy market. Shoebox phone PV today. i-phone PV tomorrow.

Most PV growth predictions will prove conservative in hindsight. Watch!

]]> By: Ryan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/12/beyond-subsidized-solar-power-the-path-to-grid-parity/#comment-6426 Wed, 13 May 2009 01:05:07 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2556#comment-6426 Am I missing something here…

100kW = 100 000W

6.50$/W * 100 000W = 650 000$ ??? I know this isn’t correct, so what am I missing?

]]> By: Ryan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/12/beyond-subsidized-solar-power-the-path-to-grid-parity/#comment-22857 Wed, 13 May 2009 01:05:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2556#comment-22857 Am I missing something here…

100kW = 100 000W

6.50$/W * 100 000W = 650 000$ ??? I know this isn’t correct, so what am I missing?

]]> By: Jagan Nemani http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/12/beyond-subsidized-solar-power-the-path-to-grid-parity/#comment-6425 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:11:26 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2556#comment-6425 Some very good points on the roadmap for price reduction and how Solar PV will acheive grid parity. Some points that were missed were around using metallurgical grade silicon. This has lower cost of production and hence can reduce the overall price of the PV system. We just have to figure out how to get good efficiencies out fo the metallurgical grade silicon.

Does REC Solar have a position on Mettalurgical grade silicon?

]]> By: Jagan Nemani http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/12/beyond-subsidized-solar-power-the-path-to-grid-parity/#comment-22856 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:11:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2556#comment-22856 Some very good points on the roadmap for price reduction and how Solar PV will acheive grid parity. Some points that were missed were around using metallurgical grade silicon. This has lower cost of production and hence can reduce the overall price of the PV system. We just have to figure out how to get good efficiencies out fo the metallurgical grade silicon.

Does REC Solar have a position on Mettalurgical grade silicon?

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