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> Ignoring maintenance, you get $25,000 worth of electricity for an initial one-time investment of $700. Though that's production cost, and excludes installatio
by anamax 15y ago
> Ignoring maintenance, you get $25,000 worth of electricity for an initial one-time investment of $700. Though that's production cost, and excludes installation, maintenance, etc. so likely multiples of that at retail.
Something is wrong here. Installation is maybe $3k. The typical retail markup is 2x. So, let's call it $5k.
25 years of 4,000kWH is 100,000kWH. $25K means $0.25/kWH, which seems high.
- guimarin 15y agoin south san jose, we pay an average of $.42/kWH in the summer. and it only goes down to about $.31 in the winter.
- anamax 15y agoHuh? I'm in San Jose and my last electric bill was $107 (including taxes) for 587kWH. That's just over $0.18kWH. I'm not on a life-line or time of use schedule. (That's a two family house.)
- biot 15y agoThe article mentions Germany which apparently is quite high ($0.30/kWh as of 2009): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_electricity_price_comparison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_elec...