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Solar Power Cost Guide – The Secrets of Getting A Great Deal on Your Solar PV Installation
October 17th, 2010 | 
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Solar power cost estimates vary a huge amount depending on who installs your system and which solar rebates you apply for. This short video gives a rough overview with examples of typcial solar pv costs.
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Solar Power Cost Guide – A Quick Outline Of How Much Your Solar PV Install Will Cost
At present I’ve been doing a lot of solar power cost research to find out how much an installation on my roof will be. The video below contains some of the best info that I found after several hours of googling. All links are added underneath the video.
Key Points
There are loads of sites about solar power cost, but the best information I have found are these three sources:-
1. http://www.thesolarguide.com
2.http://www.popularmechanics.com
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUSVdJ2WqY
Each of these sites details its own distinct approach to installing solar panels, and the cost associated with each varies considerably. These methods are as follows:-
1. Professional Installer
Pro – peace of mind as work usually carries some sort of guaranty
Pro – work will take less of your time
con – cost is around $10-$12 per watt installed (before any rebates)
2. DIY install
Pro – Cost is much cheaper at around $4.50 per watt installed
pro – If you enjoy DIY, this option can be a lot of fun
con – If anything goes wrong you will have to fix the system yourself
3. DIY + Professional Help
Pro – Cost is around $6.29 per watt, which is still around half that of a professional install.
Pro – The tricky/dangerous bits are done for you
Con – There is no overall guaranty for the system
Solar Rebates
Perhaps the most important thing that I found is that the key to saving money is in the rebates on offer. A crucial first step is to check the availability of any federal grants you may be able to receive. Some people have been able to cut their solar power cost by more than half this way.
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Solar Panels Electricity Cost
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Solar panels electricity cost less than you might think.
Electricity generation through solar cells wind turbines
and fuel cells is not only becoming more popular,
but much less expensive” Portable and small solar
cells can even be mounted on cell phones and
cars.
The most cost-effective solar cells are the ones
you build at home yourself. These cells can be
constructed for less than $200 per panel and
provide inexpensive solar panel electricity
generation.
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DIY Solar Panel Cost
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Recession Means More Cost Efficient Solar Panels
The wholesale solar panel industry has been forced to drop its prices due to the cost of silicon after the recession. Clean Skies News looks at what homeowners will gain by installing solar panels now, and interviews David Llorens, who is co-founder of solar company One Block off the Grid.
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are all solar power costs kept high by energy suppliers ,and if so why.dont they understand usage is best. OK
do they not realise that cheaper energy means more consumption , more consumtion means more ways to con the consumer Just like they always have.Most people don’t give two shI**TS about global warming they are only worried about what the cost is to survive
Solar power is actually very inefficient and expensive to harvest, which is why it isn’t used much. It just can’t compete with fossil fuels.
Also we don’t actually have much sunshine in the UK, particularly in winter, which is when we need the power most.
So it’s not a conspiracy, it’s economics.
Paradoxically, one of the best alternative energy sources is the methane generated by decomposing landfill sites!
Rural Solar Powered Low Cost ATM
Villagers in India have to travel miles for basic amenities such as food and medical facilities. In these circumstances, access to banking services may seem like a dream. But not anymore. Thanks to an ATM built for rural India by the Chennai-based Vortex Engineering.
Vortex’s Gramateller ATM was conceived for rural India, but given its rich features, it can possibly find ready markets even outside and give multinational ATM vendors a run for their money.
The idea of an ATM for rural India took root in the early part of the decade when Vortex’s founder, R Kannan, an alumnus of IIT Chennai, along with professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Bhaskar Ramamurthi and other faculty, were working on ways to leverage technology for rural benefit.
Around the same time, a few banks approached IIT for help with rural banking. The team experimented with installing ATMs in a rural area near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, and the results were encouraging — people were able to use the ATM without assistance but the hitch was the high cost.
“Acceptance was good but the ATM was too expensive for places with low footfalls such as rural and semi-urban areas,” says Mr Kannan. Conventional ATM costs were around Rs 5 lakh, and including the air-conditioning and the room to house the ATM, the installation costs would spiral to Rs 8-10 lakh. Another big hurdle was long power cuts, because of which the ATM would be unusable for hours.
In working out on how to overcome these hurdles, Mr Kannan and IIT’s faculty eventually came up with Gramateller after four years of innovation in the design, electronics and mechanics.
“It was a tough investment. It took a long time to perfect,” recalls Vineet Rai of Aavishkaar, a venture capital (VC) focussed on social and rural investments, which pumped in Rs 10 lakh along with another VC firm, Venture East, when Gramateller was still in concept stage.
Gramateller’s cash dispensing machine (CDM), which is the heart of the ATM, accounts for a large part of the innovation, which makes it less power-hungry and cheaper — a basic Gramateller model costs Rs 1.75 lakh, one-fourth the cost of a conventional ATM.
In conventional ATMs, the cassette, where currency notes are stored, is vertical and requires a spring or piston to push the notes when they have to be dispensed. In Gramateller, this cassette is horizontal and the notes are dispensed using a gravity-assisted mechanism, saving power.
Conventional ATMs consume about 1,800 units of electricity a month, but Gramateller requires 72 units, says Vijay V Babu, CEO, Vortex. Less power means less heating and therefore no need for air-conditioning. “Frugal engineering definitely helped,” he adds.
The ATM runs on Linux, which is an open source software, unlike conventional ATMs that run on Windows for which licence has to be purchased. It also has a built-in UPS, which ensures the ATM doesn’t go down when there are power cuts, and the option to run on solar energy.
Other unique features include fingerprint-based biometric authentication and the ability to dispense soiled notes. Vortex started with seed funding from Venture East and Aavishkaar in 2006. Ray Stata, founder of semi-conductor firm Analog Devices and Switzerland-based Bamboo Finance invested in 2008 and 2009, taking the total VC investment to Rs 30 crore.
Vortex launched Gramateller commercially in 2008, and after a pilot with State Bank of India in the same year, the company has now clinched an order for 545 ATMs from the bank. Orders have also started coming in from private banks. The manufacturing of the ATMs has been outsourced to a contract manufacturer.
With about 80% of India’s population in rural areas and less than 10,000 ATMs, there is a huge latent demand, feels Babu. “India has an installed base of around 45,000 ATMs — the ideal ratio is 1 ATM for every 1000 people.
So, to even get to 1 ATM for every 10,000 people, India would need over 1 lakh ATMs more,” he says. Enquiries have also started coming from African countries and Indonesia, Malaysia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“From here, I only see the value of Aavishkaar’s investment enhancing. Not only because profits will start coming in from sales, but because the business has huge potential to scale up,” says Rai. For Rai, whose fund invests in social ventures, it is another vindication that good intentions can multiply.
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DIY Solar Energy: Homemade Solar Space Heater Cost $30
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Low Cost Homemade Solar Panels – Home Energy Solution
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