Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful

Re:Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful by layoric on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:33PM (#27797809)

15-20kW? How big is your home/electricity consumption? I paid $7.5K USD ($10K AUD) for 5.9kW panels (5kW inverter) only 2.5 years ago, which I still think is pretty good.

In summer I generate 40kWh a day, winter down to ~23kWh (AU is lucky though in this regard), which nearly always exceeds my home usage. 20kW of panels is huge, at least 60+ panels + I'm guessing multiple large inverters or lots of micro inverters.

$1/watt installed is really cheap IMO at this scale residential.

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Re:Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful by birdman3131 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:15AM (#27798423)

I am running about 2100kw/month (about 70/day) and we are not cooling all rooms. I wish I was not renting as I would insulate the hell out of an owned home. (I would also install solar but that's a different issue.)

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Re:Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful by novok on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:08PM (#27797958)

I'm guessing they have really bad weather at certain times, so they need to over provision.

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Re:Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful by megablast on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:19AM (#27798442)

Maybe a while I have 300w to run a fridge and laptop, and do fine.

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