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Today, I pay 11 cents per kilowatt-hour from Xcel Energy. At $1 per watt, a solar panel rated at 1000 watts would cost $1000. It would take 9000 hours of use to break even. Assuming an average of 8 hours of sunlight per day, that would take 3 years.
At the current price of $8 per watt, the break even point is 24 years. Even $3 per watt isn't attractive with a break even point of 9 years. - Posted by: archerjoe Posted on: 12/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Break even at $1 per watt would be 3 years
archerjoe | 12/07/06
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Sort of right,
Aussie_Troll | 12/08/06
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Coal probably used
Aussie_Troll | 12/08/06
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Ah, but herein lies the solution...
Linux User 147560 | 12/08/06
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I checked - it's 7 hours not 8
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