interesting price survey ..

al128

month: year: price x W in USA : price x W in Euro(pe)

Jun 2008 4.82 4.70 May 2008 4.81 4.71 Apr 2008 4.81 4.71 Mar 2008 4.82 4.73 Feb 2008 4.81 4.74 Jan 2008 4.83 4.74 Dec 2007 4.83 4.77 Nov 2007 4.83 4.76 Oct 2007 4.84 4.77 Sept 2007 4.84 4.78 Aug 2007 4.85 4.79 July 2007 4.84 4.78 June 2007 4.85 4.78 May 2007 4.86 4.79 Apr 2007 4.87 4.80 Mar 2007 4.88 4.80 Feb 2007 4.88 4.79 Jan 2007 4.88 4.82 Dec 2006 4.88 4.82 Nov 2006 4.88 4.82 Oct 2006 4.87 4.83 Sept 2006 4.86 4.83 Aug 2006 4.86 4.83 July 2006 4.85 4.83 June 2006 4.83 4.83 May 2006 4.82 4.84 Apr 2006 4.77 4.82 Mar 2006 4.73 4.82 Feb 2006 4.73 4.81 Jan 2006 4.71 4.80 Dec 2005 4.70 4.80 Nov 2005 4.68 4.80 Oct 2005 4.66 4.79 Sept 2005 4.64 4.79 Aug 2005 4.63 4.79 July 2005 4.56 4.76 June 2005 4.54 4.75 May 2005 4.53 4.75 Apr 2005 4.51 4.75 Mar 2005 4.49 4.75 Feb 2005 4.47 4.73 Jan 2005 4.43 4.73 Dec 2004 4.42 4.71 Nov 2004 4.42 4.70 source:

www.solarbuzz.com

al128

Re: interesting price survey ..

just for the record (and I was not too clear about it):

those are prices per Watts for bigger solar panels ...

so here goes the "lets wait a couple of yrs till the prices come down" theory


cheers
al

niel

Re: interesting price survey ..

a better question might be what happened to your electric costs during that same time period? most went up.

BB.

Re: interesting price survey ..

Mine where pretty flat since 1996:

Year : $/kWhr
1996: 0.11589
2004: 0.12589
2005: 0.1143
2008: 0.11559

But that is a bit of a lie... My energy use has always been pretty low (i.e., "cheap") and the above prices are the "base tier charges."

The effective "average" charges (for the average consumer?) are:

Year : $/kWhr
1996: 0.12229
2004: 0.13315
2005: 0.13727
2008: 0.16474

What will next year bring?...

-Bill