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by sandos 13 days ago
11k euro is INSANELY cheap?

Afaik there is absolutely no way to the same thing legally here in Sweden. Unless prices have really fallen off a cliff.

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Yes, indeed, once I saw the math/price, it seemed like a no-brainer to just install it. Anedoctal, of course, the rumour is a few (small-ish) companies here offer their complete services abroad in EU (at least to Germany to my knowledge), which makes it very cheap to install, but I did not interact with said companies.

I have friends in Germany and their solar (similar to ours, no batteries) installation cost more than double. At the time, it seemed expensive and out of reach...

EDIT: forgot to mention that there is a big solar installation boom here, our godfather has a small company which just installed two solar parks and waits for them to go into operation (which is harder than it sounds, due to bureaucracy).

EDIT 2: Just for fun, I've calculated todays price (retail price at the time of writing this) using Romanian prices:

- 22 solar panels (460w): 434.39 RON/panel [1]

- 8kW hybrid inverter: 4873 RON [2]

- 2 16kWh batteries: 17576 RON [3]

Total is 32009 RON, that is (at current exchange rate) 6088EUR. The rest is service (planning/execution), warranty and so on.

[1]: https://depozitsolar.ro/canadian-solar-4/canadian-solar-toph...

[2]: https://ecobatenergy.ro/invertor-deye-hibrid-sun-8k-sg05lp1-...

[3]: https://ecobatenergy.ro/acumulator-renon-lifepo4-xcellent-pl...

Missing gst.
My bad, indeed, for the inverter and for the batteries I missed the gst. I still believe it's good value, even with the added tax.