Swwils wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 5:39 pm
A US2000 used to be £345. No way am I going to pay £1,700 for a 5000.
Two years ago I paid £800 each for US3000Cs, now they are £1,362. We've had a combination of rampant inflation, skyrocketing demand and massively reduced availability. Prices started to shoot up about a year ago, as demand skyrocketed and availability decreased, then inflation reared it's head on top of that lot. For the past few months many suppliers haven't even been able to get stock, and lead times of 6 to 12 weeks have been pretty normal.
Same goes for inverters. I had a quote for a Lux inverter at about £900 a year ago. I went back to the same supplier a few months ago and the price had gone up to £1,500. The market has gone crazy, with a lot of people choosing to fit panels, inverters and batteries because of rising electricity costs. One thing I've noted is that ITS are consistently at the lower end of the price range, plus they seem to be able to get stock of most things, although there is another paragraph in their mailshot that shows that even they are struggling with some manufacturers products, like Givenergy bumping prices by 30% twice so far this year:
Givenergy has been quite a challange to say the least with cables and other accessories not being supplied, Gen 2's promoted as being available then withdrawn after everyone wanted them and delayed until next year sometime as well as their EV charger also delayed until next year.
They have now increased their prices by another 30% for the 2nd time this year. We have a few batteries currently at the old price but struggle to see how it can be viable after these are sold.
25 off 250W Perlight solar panels, installed 2014, with a 6kW PowerOne inverter, about 6,000kWh/year generated
6 off Pylontech US3000C batteries, with a Sofar ME3000SP inverter