Comments on: Solar Getting Cheaper, But Not Equally

By: dcmeserve

dcmeserve — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:31:00 +0000

You basic point of “cost does not correlate with market size” would still be preserved, even if people misunderstand the logarithmic axis.. I guess people might mistakenly think that many states have more PV installed than they really do, or that NJ, CA are not as far ahead of the others than they really are. Is that a worse problem than having to throw out data points?

By: Jfarrell

Jfarrell — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Cost per Watt is DC

By: Jfarrell

Jfarrell — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:07:00 +0000

Sadly, that’s a tradeoff between accurate display and reader comprehension…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:32:00 +0000

When they speak of $/w, is it in AC or DC? With such differences in price, does anyone try shipping it from a cheaper state? Or do you lose that advantage due to taxes, etc?

And are there more resources for prices in other countries? Canada?

By: dcmeserve

dcmeserve — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:51:00 +0000

> (I ran out of room in the small market states)
> …
> California was omitted because its market is orders of magnitude larger than the rest…

Dude, just use a logarithmic scale for the market-size axis!