When will solar and wind power be affordable to the average home owner?
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Cut the incentives, import tarriffs, and special grind tie rates. That will make prices truly competitive for those that want to participate in home green energy, and not put any cost on those that do not want to.
The important thing is the incentives, which artificially raise the prices of equipment.
A 5KW wind system from China will cost you about $1,000 to $2,000. That is including the batteries.
I suggest you buy directly from China as this is where most of the systems come from. Of course you are being reamed by western prices.
I live in China and would be happy to put together some packges for you.
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when more people start using it , will be cheaper.
hopefully soon
Because of the big oil spill the government is pushing for more people to use renewable energy, so hopefully soon, but if you do get one now you get a lot back on your taxes from it so you will eventually get all the money you spent on it back
hope this helped
Have you not heard of E=MC2, Albert Einstein, wind has no mass, hourly, therefore no energy. The sunshine you speak exists only on Sunny days, good luck with your belief in the aforementioned. luv ser
Have you got any evidence for them price gouging? The cheapest solar panels in the world are produced by FirstSolar and last year they only just dropped below $1,000/kWp (i.e. $10,000 for your 10kWp system). That doesn’t include frames, inverters, grid tie system or installation. And silicon is more expensive and are available for home rooftops right now unlike FS’ CdTe.
I think it’s a case of solar still being too expensive. Prices are falling, and will continue to do so. The big problem atm is that non-module things account for about half of the cost (maybe more now). Frames, installation, inverter etc.
And wow, your small to medium homes guzzle electricity! In northern England you should expect a 10kWp system to make ~7,500kWh in a year. Our household of 5 people used the equivalent of under 4,000kWh leccy with gas heating last year. And N England isn’t very sunny! I think that energy efficiency is the best start. You’re probably going to have to wait a few more years for solar prices to become sensible.
I did a research project on CdTe solar cells. As part of it we had access to literature from other research and industry groups with price projections. Commercial thin films are expected to hit grid parity in sunny areas in under a decade – they’re already very very close. Rooftop ones are more expensive and currently rely on silicon – if we can get high efficiency thin film materials (CIGS, CZGS or dye sensitized probably. Maybe amorphous or poly-Si will do) then we may hit household grid parity by 2020ish in sunny places. I’ve heard 2025-2030 thrown about for the UK.
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It will be affordable when we run out of oil and are living on a dry rock with dead oceans.
We won’t even have to buy it..