German Solar PV In January — €1.52/Watt

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• 1520 euro/kWp with 900 kWh/kWp per year and electricity price of 25 eurocents/kWh means that the system will pay back in less than 7 years if it is built for self-consumption. Of course if electricity price stays at 25 eurocents/kWh in the next 7 years.

  http://bit.ly/LrRWPW

  • A “less than 7 years” payback is a better than 10% return on investment.

    Just try to find a relatively safe place to invest your money at 10%. (And please let me know if you do. lo)

  • However, 100% self-consumption is usually not possible (without batteries or a relatively small PV-system compared to the average electricity consumption) and Germany just doesn’t offer net-metering.

    • True. But once people realize how much money they loose by selling their electricity cheap under FIT contracts and later having to buy at [double] price including VAT, etc a demand for home grid storage will emerge.

      • Definitely see it coming. Major companies are coming out with energy storage options for such people. If the price is competitive enough, this could start quite a shift.

        • But I see one problem. Altmaier saw it too 🙂 From his proposals several weeks ago:

          The “eroding solidarity” with regard to the EEG surcharge due to self-production and self-consumption shall be stopped

          The more electricity the end users self-consume the less they buy from the grid and as a result less and less money are collected from the EEG surcharge and VAT. (Germany charges the EEG surcharge with VAT too – “Private Households Pay EUR 937 Million in VAT on EEG Surcharge” [ in 2012 ] )

          It will be interesting to see how they are going to handle this.

        • Altmaier has plenty of critics. 😉

        • “Look Dear! Our rooftop solar saved us 20 euros this week! Now let’s burn a 20 euro note, as the government would just get filthy VAT money from us if we spent the money we saved on something useful.”

        • They will get their VAT from EEG surcharge one way or another because the renewable electricity has to be brought from renewabes and payed by EEG surcharge.

• Here’s an example of a 5 kW PV-System with everything included for €1.22 /W:
  http://www.photovoltaikforum.com/angebote-f41/94369-5kwp-1220eur-et-solar-t88095.html

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