Post #2820793
2025-10-20 07:10 UTC
5. Solar modules now cost 8.9 US cents per Watt (higher in US, India due to trade barriers). Solar panels are cheaper than most ordinary fencing materials. For rooftop installs, non-module cost is still $0.50-3.00 per Watt, so further module price declines make little difference.
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green 2025-10-20 07:10
6. These prices mean that few makers of solar modules are profitable right now. If manufacturers stop selling at these prices, they will permanently lose customers. They are locked into a game of chicken. There will be bankruptcies and eventual price stabilisation.
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@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl 2025-10-20 07:48
@solar_chase@mastodon.green Thanks for this thread, loaded with useful data! A question: what do you make of the fact (IEA) that 80% of the whole PV supply chain is controlled by one country - China - and therefore the today’s PV price is a product of Chinese subsidies, forced labour and poor environmental standards?