Solar data

 Does anybody knows where can I get Historical prices of PV (I need
prices from end of the 70s or beggining of the 80s till now?

  Always been $5 a watt. Always will be. Every company can sell as much
as they can make. Why lower the price?

 Read the post before you answer with unrelated crap.

 

It has been at or just below $5/watt for about 20 years from the data in the
links someone posted.  But consider how much more energy costs, and raw
inflation has gone up since then.  Even if it never declines, if it manages
to stay $5/watt "always" it will be a real bargain in another 20 years.  Of
course it would be nice if it becomes a real bargain sooner than that, but
for that to happen either energy costs need to go up a lot faster than they
have in the past twenty years or the price needs to budge from its historic
$4-5/watt range.

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Douglas Siebert                          dsiebert@excisethis.khamsin.net

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

 

Stop it!  You're going to upset all of the folks who insist that solar is
just a subsidized boondoggle to make greenies feel good.

At the straight rates of today, mine should eventually pay off.  If rates
go up as projected, it should pay off in 8 years.

My susbsidized cost is about $5/watt, with grid-tie inverter, installed.
The panels alone are $4.20 a watt, subsidized to $1.40 a watt before tax
credits.

http://cdold.home.mchsi.com/Solar-generation.htm

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA  38.8,-122.5