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Just been looking at prices. My Quattro is 30% less than when I bought it. Bimble is doing a pallet of 14kW of panels for under £2000. I paid £4000 for 12kW only a couple of years ago :<. I managed to time the peak perfectly.

https://www.bimblesolar.com/solar/solar ... LLET-H410W

12.94p/Wp including VAT. That’s the best that I’ve seen. Makes me wonder what the solar farms pay per Watt.
They must be competitive as fencing panels (when properly supported).

I've been having a very positive year, getting excited about the incredible reduction in PV prices (Worldwide). My recent PV extension was eye-opening since the installer said they prefer to quote cost for the materials, and make all their money/profit on the labour. That way I was able to compare some of the prices on the wholesale sites, to what the installer(s) must be getting after their account discount is applied.

For the relatively cheap brand panels I went for (Longi and Jinko) the quote came out at about 12p/Wp (but obviously without VAT). So reading into it a bit more, that offer mentioned at ~10.8p before VAT, and scaling up to container loads, perhaps less than 10p/Wp is reasonable(?) to assume.


Looks like we are seeing any/all price reductions held up by Covid and the demand rush for PV post Ukraine invasion, all coming through now, the same for battery prices. If around 600GWp of PV is installed this year, and costs keep falling with higher production, and installs keep rising with lower prices (rinse and repeat), then we could see 1TWp of annual PV installs arriving well before 2030, possibly 2027/28.

I've been saying this for a decade now, but despite my being very optimistic about PV and PV prices, I've always been wrong ..... in a good way. I hope it continues.