Mainland vs. Island purchases

[Wao nahele kane]

Thank-you to everyone.
A heads up to anyone about to buy a solar PV system and not ready to install it right away.
The prices of solar panels have dropped considerably over the past couple years and are projected to drop to less than $1 a watt by mid or later 2010 and in 2011 they should reach less than 50 cents a watt. Because of this and knowing how long it will be before I get to the point of needing to install our PV system. We'll wait the probable year before we're ready to install the panels and purchase them at that time for $1w rather than buying them now at the current price of a $1.50w+. That will save us $5k+.



E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.

[David M]

I paid over $5/watt four years ago.
David

Ninole Resident

[Hawaiibound]

Now that you can make your own solar panels, the price is really right and the time is now.

[JWFITZ]

Do NOT go with Northern Lights, by the way. I'm unfortunately familiar with those.

What the hell are you running that you need that kind of power? A smelter?

And don't get fixated with the cost of PV panels. The panels are the cheap part. They last. The problem is the battery bank, look at what that costs--then you can properly price your PV system. Batteries don't last, unless you've got a hell of a lot of them.

This I know, by the way, having lived with it. No, I don't sell them. Nor do desire to.


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