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by morphle 66 days ago
25 400W solar panels at $0,08/Wp =$800.00 solar panels bought in bulk

metal poles and brackets $275

10 EVE 334AH 3.2V= 10,680 kWh $70.30 =$700.30 batteries bought in bulk

Enernet Power Router components $290 (I left out 2/3 of components because this is such a small installation and needs no 4x25 Gbps internet)

Cables $230,50

Metal enclosure $61

Install fee 5 hours two people $23 per hour = $230

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$2,587.80

So your "capital cost of solar right now of 1$/W" is 0.26$/W

10000 x $1W nominally installed =10000 kwh per year times 30 years = 3000,000 kWh total power yield

$2587.80/300,000=$0.00862333 per 1 kWh LCOE 30 years $2587.80/500,000=$0.0051756 per 1 kWh LCOE 50 years

These numbers are of day prices of today. Currently the battery and solar prices are high because of the high oil and gas prices of the US/Israel/Lebanon/Iran/Ukraine/Sudan wars, there is a steep battery and solar panel price rise. The overal LOCE is still hand-wavy in that several costs might happen in the 50 year of operation: Drop of 20% solar panel yield by breaking glass, cost of cleaning the panels, cable replacement, accidental electronics wear en tear, extra maintainance labour cost. Also, I doubt you need a loan to pay for $2582.80. If you did at a compound 3% interest rate with you would pay over 50 years, $11,344.67, more than 4,3 times than if you payed up front (from an online calculator, if you payed off per month than just the interest it would be lower).

But whoever is right, you'll certainly stay under $0,01 per kWh from solar and round trip storage cost in batteries.

If you are lucky, it will be almost half that, $0,005 per kWh.

To heat your apartment and drive all over the American continent with your electric car you'll need more than 10kW for an average US midwestern house.

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Thank you, great info. You have great suppliers though: I can get close on batteries (I see four for $355, so $88 instead of your $70) but for panels the best I can get is $220 instead of your $32---how do you go about getting them at those prices? Also, what Ethernet Power Router for $290? Is that a Fiberhood product? How and where would I order it?
>how do you go about getting them at those prices?

Buy a 40 shipping container with aproximately 770 panels in the factory loading lot, truck to Shenzen harbor, ship to a port in the USA, Belém/Natal/Manaus or Rotterdam, Our own truck to the customer.

Please, where do you get your 4 LifePo4 batteries for $355? I only have one source for $70, I want more sources.

Edit: Thank you, I just ordered 8400 of your batteries (see h3lp his comment's Google link below) for less than $600,000 (at a discount). Picking them up in two weeks.

>Also, what Ethernet Power Router for $290?

My company product, you'll get the datasheets and video as part of the order contract. See my white paper for the old model, its much upgraded since.

>Is that a Fiberhood product?

A Morphle and a Fiberhood product. Morphle is the company mass-producing electronics and chips, including the chargers, dischargers, mppt a.k.a. the Enernet Power Routers. Fiberhood cooperative sells and installs the complete infrastructure systems: Enernet systems and fiber optic internet (since 1987, we were one of the first internet providers), batteries, solar panels, power routers, tiny houses and water tanks.

>How and where would I order it?

With me in Europe or Ukraine or our office in Tucson or Montreal. +31617428596 Signal, Facetime, Whatsapp, Telegram.

You can also bundle your solar panel or battery bulk orders with us, we'll ship them directly to you in the US from the Shenzen factory region or the Poland or US wharehouse. We won't charge you a profit margin, we get a larger joint order and that gets us both a discount, less chipping cost and lower insurance. We have an agent in Shenzen overseeing the loading at the factories.