Comments on: Average Installation Cost of PV in Germany Now 1.776 Euro/Wp

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:04:00 +0000

That’s one year old data. Here’s the latest…

May 2013€ 1,570

$2.04/watt. Germany has been hung at about that price for around six months.

By: Logistika Danas

Logistika Danas — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:16:00 +0000

too much

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:45:00 +0000

definitely. just holding it up as an example of what happens when strong policies are implemented.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:22:00 +0000

yeah, hope it will…

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:22:00 +0000

any wonder why the fossil fuel and utility companies are fighting solar so much?

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:21:00 +0000

nice.

By: sola

sola — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:53:00 +0000

This is great news but it is worth to know that Germany is the MOST developed solar market on earth by a huge margin to the second.

There is an extreme amount of proven solar small-scale installer companies there so due to the competition, the efficiency of these companies have gone through the roof (and consequently, their install prices have come down).

Also, equipment prices (like inverters) go down because the market has grown huge, so the supply chain is now very effective and pushing prices down.

Since the solar panels themselves are only 40-50% of the installed price, installation and equipment costs are very important.

Other markets are not even comparable to Germany even in Europe, let alone the rest of the world.

It will be 2-5 years while the installation experience and supply chain advancements trickle down to less-developed European countries like Hungary (my home).

Panel prices are now sufficiently low here (~1.3USD/W) but trustworthy installers are hard to find and expensive.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:11:00 +0000

$2.26/watt installed in US money.

We are so behind in this race….

By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:55:00 +0000

Installed in Australia at that cost, solar PV would produce electricity at about half the cost of what we currently pay for it. Obviously we’re going to get a large portion of our electricity from solar in the near future.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:48:00 +0000

Assuming the line of best fit on that graph stays constant, it looks like we may be able to hit 1 Euro/Watt(p) by 2013-2014!

By: Karl-Friedrich Lenz

Karl-Friedrich Lenz — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:53:00 +0000

These numbers are the average for the first three months. Atsushi Murakami tweeted on May 11 that prices have dropped further since then to an average of 1460 euro per kW, giving this month’s “Photon” ( a German solar industry magazine) as a source:

https://twitter.com/#!/murakamiatsushi/status/200647427995348992