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A year from now for that price is okay considering federal subsidies will end and you'll need that price to attract adoption.

• dogma1138 11y ago
  Ok at best, not revolutionary or extraordinary, there are other panel companies with panels in the same price range even now if you want to buy "cheap" panels from China you can get as low as 0.3-0.4$ per watt. For most house installations the panel costs aren't the big deal, the installation and the electrical setup cost more than the panels, and it's really not clear from the article if this is included in the price. The labor costs, mounting frames, battery/capacitor bank, inverter and all the wiring cost a small fortune, if you want to hook it to the grid for offload you'll end up paying even more because then you need to tick quite a few additional regulatory boxes. So while I'm sure that these are going to be great panels, and 55 cents per watt for the panel it self isn't a bad price it's not going to be amazing, and this isn't even much beyond the current status of the market if you count in panels in general, for a US made panel that's going to be "revolutionary" for sure but again that should't really give it any substantial merit. But on the other hand of this is an overall price for a turn-key system this is a huge deal because this is in the orders of magnitude cheaper than the current turn-key price for an installation, which is what makes me think this is the panel price only.