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Industrial Solar Panels Offered at Lower and Lower Prices

SolarByTheWatt_com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:01:35 +0000

Solar panels sold at large order quantities for industrial needs are being offered at lower and lower prices.

SolarMaxDirect.com, a distributor for solar photovoltaic modules, has recently dropped prices for large industrial size orders.

Buyers involved in projects of 50kw and upwards can get their panels at prices $2.25 per watt peak and lower.

The offered industrial solar panels have the same variety of sizes and use the same technology (polycrystalline and monocrystalline) as most photovoltaic modules massively sold these days and carry similar or better warranties like 90% output power 12 years warranty and 80% 25 years warranty.

Prices of the solar modules are a core factor in the economic efficiency of solar power projects.

Lowest Solar Panel Prices Per Watt 2009-10-20

SolarByTheWatt_com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:30:05 +0000

We are continuing our series of articles on lowest prices per watt for solar photovoltaic panels where every time we have changes in the price ranking we will publish a new article with corresponding date in the title.

We list the cheapest panels dollar per watt that we can find on the internet and through direct research. We also include listings of products our readers submit to us through the Contact Us form or in the comments. Representatives of the different vendors are welcome to submit info about their products too. Very differently from other “cheapest solar panels lists” out there we will not charge you for that and we will not tell you the list is already full – yep, this is what some publishers of lowest prices in solar have told some of the vendors of realistically the cheapest panels in certain sizes. Yeah, we had a good laugh listening to the story of one of the vendors here trying to get listed with a web page claiming to be a free survey of the lowest prices. While these vendors were not allowed to be listed their after being asked for money and told that the list is full already there are companies on their list that are listed twice.

We do not claim at all that these are research and results of an absolute character. That is, we realize that there might be products, vendors, pricing structures for certain types of projects and quantities that we are not able to identify through our effort.

That is why nobody should get offended that their product brand or vendor company is not included in our research or they are not ranked correctly because we have not found out about their lowest, low or otherwise competitive prices.

While we maintain that prices as dollar per Watt ($/Wp, dollar per Watt peak) is the number that will take the solar power industry to the stage of playing a major role of resolving the gigantic issues the US and the world have with securing clean, safe and abundant source of energy, we also realize that with many products groups prices reflect many other things than just willingness of the manufactures and the marketers to provide an affordable product.

Namely, different prices may reflect different quality and quality preference of the market – i.e. higher quality products may maintain relatively higher prices given all other factors being equal.

Different prices may reflect different costs to manufacture products of certain type of technology. We are well aware that this is especially true with solar panels. We will try, as effort grows to provide a way for our readers to be able to separate prices listed and researched for different underlying technologies of products.

In this edition of the lowest prices article for example we are separating in different tables the three most popular commercially available cell technologies on which solar photovoltaic modules are based: monocrystalline, polycrystalline and thin-film. That should make it very easy for our readers to get to useful information about the competitors in the different technologies. Also it will give a chance for a vendor who offers a good price in one technology to not to be shadowed by a vendor with low price in the other technology.

We also have tried to include more sizes, that is make the list much longer in order to give chance for vendors that are not necessarily with the lowest price to show in the study. One thing you can expect in future editions is to see the lists broken down in different size ranges which should give even better chance for vendors to appear in their area of strength.

In any case if any reader, buyer or seller of solar products thinks that our best research effort has not presented certain vendors, brand or price – please, feel free to contact us and forward to us details of the the product and price you think we should list. We will add additional level to research to verify that such price is being offered on regular basis and will try to reflect this in our report.

The reason we believe prices in dollar per watt peak with solar photovoltaic modules is so critical for this industry to take off as a major player in resolving the energy issues the world has created for itself is that such price is a major factor in the economic efficiency of a solar power installation. See our article Economics of Solar Power on this.

Have in mind in addition to the very sharply falling prices of solar modules what else is driving the further acceptance of this clean energy technology is the government incentives programs that exist in different places in the world including incentives on federal level in the US in the form of a 30% tax credit on total installation costs and other different state level subsidies and feed in tariffs.

Here is or current ranking:

Monocrystalline

($/Wp, $ per module, Wp of the module, technology, Model, Brand,Vendor, URL to the vendor’s page)

$2.25 / Wp, $416.25, 185W, Mono-crystalline, SMD185M, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$2.25 / Wp, $405.00, 180W, Mono-crystalline, SMD180M, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$2.25 / Wp, $540.00, 240W, Mono-crystalline, SMD240M, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com (sizes over 190W from SolarMaxDirect.com are not UL listed)
(SolarMaxDirect’s prices for less than a container size of order are $2.70)

$3.20 / Wp, $544.00, 170W, Mono-crystalline, DMSOLAR 170 MONO, BrightWatts, DmSolar, http://www.dmsolar.com

$3.40 / Wp, $594.41, 175W, Mono-crystalline, NT-175U, Sharp, Infinigi, http://www.infinigi.com

$3.57 / Wp, $625.00, 175W, Mono-crystalline, SW175, Solar World, Backwoods Solar, http://www.backwoodssolar.com

Polycrystalline

($/Wp, $ per module, Wp of the module, technology, Model, Brand, Vendor, URL to the vendor’s page)

$2.25 / Wp, $427.50, 190W, Poly-crystalline, SMD190P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$2.25 / Wp, $416.25, 185W, Poly-crystalline, SMD185P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$2.25 / Wp, $405.00, 180W, Poly-crystalline, SMD180P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$2.25 / Wp, $393.75, 175W, Poly-crystalline, SMD175P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$2.25 / Wp, $382.50, 170W, Poly-crystalline, SMD170P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com
(sizes over 190W from SolarMaxDirect.com are not UL listed)
(SolarMaxDirect’s prices for less than a container size of order are $2.70)

$2.43 / Wp, $509.97, 210W, Poly-crystalline, REC210AE, REC, The Solar Biz, http://www.thesolarbiz.com

$2.43 / Wp, $533.97, 220W, Poly-crystalline, REC220AE, REC, The Solar Biz, http://www.thesolarbiz.com

$2.43 / Wp, $424.97, 175W, Poly-crystalline, BP 175B, BP Solar, The Solar Biz, http://www.thesolarbiz.com

$2.44 / Wp, $549.00, 225W, Poly-crystalline, REC EA US 225, REC, Sun Electronics, http://sunelec.com

$2.54 / Wp, $558.00, 220W, Poly-crystalline, REC EA US 220, REC, Sun Electronics, http://sunelec.com

$2.59 / Wp, $543.90, 210W, Poly-crystalline, REC210AE, REC, BeyondOilSolar, http://www.beyondoilsolar.com
(many REC sizes from BeyondOilSolar are at this price)

$2.60 / Wp, $312.00, 120W, Poly-crystalline, DMSOLAR 120 POLY, BrightWatts, DmSolar, http://www.dmsolar.com

$2.68 / Wp, $522.60, 195W, Poly-crystalline, ES-A-195-fa3b, Evergreen, Sun Electronics, http://sunelec.com

$2.89 / Wp, $635.80, 220W, Poly-crystalline, SCHOTT POLY 220, Schott, Affordable Solar, http://www.affordable-solar.com

$2.99 / Wp, $523.25, 175W, Poly-crystalline, PV-UD175MF5, Mitsubishi Solar, Affordable Solar, http://www.affordable-solar.com

Thin-film

($/Wp, $ per module, Wp of the module, technology, Model, Brand,Vendor, URL to the vendor’s page)

$3.87 / Wp, $232, 60W, Thin-film, Kaneka, GSA-60, Living Off The Grid, http://livingoffthegrid.ecrater.com

$3.97 / Wp, $237.98W, Thin-film, Kaneka, GSA-60, Green Box Usa, http://www.greenboxusa.com

Feel free to send suggestions through comments on our articles or the Contact Us page.

Price, Dollar Per Watt for Large Solar Photovoltaic Projects

SolarByTheWatt_com — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:52:12 +0000

A Review of Total Investment Cost, Dollar per Watt Peak and Euro per Watt Peak for Large Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Projects.

A reader of SolarByTheWatt.com commented in a letter to us (via the Contact Us page/form) on how important it is for publications when price of solar photovoltaic is discussed – dollar per watt – to point out the difference between cost of solar just for the modules or panels and the cost of completing a whole system.

The price to complete a whole system in addition to the price of panels will include price of mounting, installation hardware, wiring, junction boxes, disconnects, price of the inverter or inverters, wiring and disconnect boxes from inverter to grid switch box, price of installation service (usually specifically trained and certified professionals are involved). In the case of a large scale projects the part of the project involving connection to the grid can be of substantial value too. In these project the price of the land used and all permits for the land and for the utility project also add to the cost.

While the break down of these expenses can be harder to study (one needs to find internal data from different projects) we thought that it is possible for many large project to find the overall costs and get to an indicative price per watt for solar power in terms of complete projects.

We also thought that focusing on as large projects as possible will let us minimize the error of rounding and approximation some of news articles might have made.

We have reviewed different announcements that indicate the price dollar per watt of complete projects.

Thought there is a lot of information about what the largest solar photovoltaic plants in the world are it has been difficult for us to find specific cost, investment information about many of them. The readers are welcome to contribute through comments or on our Contact Us page/form with links to articles specifying cost of projects.

Here is the table of results we have gathered:

Project	Peak Power, MWp	Cost, Euro, millions	Euro / Wp	US$ / Wp
Waldpolenz Solar Park	40	130	3.25	4.23
Amareleja, Moura, Portugal	62	250	4.03	5.24
SinAn Power Plant	24	110	4.58	5.96
Beneixama photovoltaic power plant	30	150	5.00	6.50
Arnedo Solar Plant	34	181	5.32	6.92
Nellis Solar Power Plant	14	77	5.49	7.14

In our results table you can see the name of the project included, peak power or the capacity of the power station in MW (MWp), investment cost in million of Euros – many of the large projects for which capacity and investment cost data was available were in Europe and the articles report the prices in Euros, cost Euro per watt peak, US dollar per watt peak – we used a 1.3 factor (close to the exchange rate at the moment EUR to USD) to get this number which we thought will be useful for anyone used to work in USD as a currency. We ordered the projects in ascending price per watt.

None of the prices we are seeing in the results are very surprising. Different articles mention about a commonly expected price of about US$ 6 – 8 per watt for industrial (utility) size projects. Many specialists involved in the industry, especially in Europe lately talk about bids that projects get in the range of 4 – 5 Euros per watt, approximately US$ 5 – 6.60 per watt.

Lowest Solar Panel Prices Per Watt 2009-02-24

Economics of Solar Power

Solar Energy Land Area Efficiency or How Many Acres per MW, kWp per Acre

A Short Science Lesson for Journalists – Watts, Kilowatts, Megawatts, Kilowatt Hours

Resources used:

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2007/02/phase-one-of-40-mw-german-solar-park-begun-47541

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moura_photovoltaic_power_station

http://www.xltelenergy.com/PRESS%20RELEASE%20170209.pdf

http://www.conergy.de/en/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-181/316_read-9306/

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/12834

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Solar_Power_Plant

Commercially Available Solar Photovoltaic Panels at $2.25

SolarByTheWatt_com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:55:54 +0000

SolarMaxDirect. Com is offering by the container solar photo voltaic panels at $2.25 delivery included. This is another development in solar prices that shows that solar can become economically very efficient and interest among industrialists will increase in building solar power.

Lowest Solar Panel Prices Per Watt 2009-04-24

SolarByTheWatt_com — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:04:57 +0000

We list the cheapest panels dollar per watt that we can find on the internet and through direct research. We also include listings of products our readers submit to us through or Contact Us form or in the comments. Representatives of the different vendors are welcome to submit info about their products too. Very differently from other “cheapest solar panels lists” out there we will not charge you for that and we will not tell you the list is already full – yep, this is what some publishers of lowest prices in solar have told some of the vendors of realistically the cheapest panels in certain sizes. Yeah, we had a good laugh listening to the story of one of the vendors here trying to get listed with a web page claiming to be a free survey of the lowest prices. While these vendors were not allowed to be listed their after being asked for money and told that the list is full already there are companies on their list that are listed twice.

Namely, different prices may reflect different quality and quality preference of the market – i.e. higher quality products may maintain relatively higher prices given all other factors being equal.

Here is or current ranking:

Monocrystalline

($/Wp, $ per module, Wp of the module, nominal voltage, technology, Brand, Model, Vendor, URL to the vendor’s page)

$3.15 / Wp, $630, 200W, 43.60V, Mono-crystalline, SMD200M, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$3.30 / Wp, $726, 220W, 45.2V, Mono-crystalline, SMD220M, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$3.30 / Wp, $610.50, 185W, 36V, Mono-crystalline, SMD185M, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$5.03 / Wp, $1,005.00, 200W, 42V, Mono-crystalline, HIT-200BA19, Sanyo, atlE Store, http://store.altenergystore.com

$5.16 / Wp, $1,032, 200W, 55.8V, Mono-crystalline, HIP-200BA19, Sanyo, Affordable Solar Group LLC, http://www.affordable-solar.com

$5.52 / Wp, $552, 100W, 18V, Mono-crystalline, SW100C, Sunwize, atlE Store, http://store.altenergystore.com

Polycrystalline

($/Wp, $ per module, Wp of the module, nominal voltage, technology, Brand, Model, Vendor, URL to the vendor’s page)

$2.95 / Wp, $516.25, 175W, 24.2V, Poly-crystalline, SMD175P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$3.30 / Wp, $445.50, 135W, 20.6V, Poly-crystalline, SMD135P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$3.30 / Wp, $594.00, 180W, 24.2V, Poly-crystalline, SMD180P, SolarMaxDirect, SolarMaxDirect.com, http://SolarMaxDirect.com

$3.54 / Wp, $637, 180W, 24V, Poly-crystalline, CSI ECOSENSE CS6P-180, Canadian Solar, Affordable Solar Group LLC, http://www.affordable-solar.com

$3.56 / Wp, $142.49, 40W, 17.3V, Poly-crystalline, BP Solar, Discount Sales Electronics, http://discountsales.com

$3.94 / Wp, $630, 160W, 24.9V, Poly-crystalline, ES-160-A, Evergreen Solar, KULLY Solar, http://kullysolar.com

$4.62 / Wp, $1,016, 220W, 28.7V, Poly-crystalline, SCM220, REC Solar, Affordable Solar Group LLC, http://www.affordable-solar.com

$5.48 / Wp, $328.88, 60W, 12V, Poly-crystalline, CD Tech Solar, RV Fun Products, http://www.rvfunproducts.com

Thin-film

($/Wp, $ per module, Wp of the module, nominal voltage, technology, Brand, Model, Vendor, URL to the vendor’s page)

$3.83 / Wp, $230, 60W, 67V, Thin-film, Kaneka, GSA-60, Living Off The Grid, http://livingoffthegrid.ecrater.com

Feel free to send suggestions through comments on our articles or the Contact Us page.

A Quick Review and Analysis to Expect

SolarByTheWatt_com — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:35:32 +0000

We are issuing this quick analysis of the current solar photovoltaic industry and related businesses and we also want to announce some topics we are currently preparing analysis on for you to know what to expect soon from SolarByTheWatt.com (Solar By The Watt Dot Com).

There has been a huge interest to our analysis till now on cost per watt of components (panels, modules etc.) as well as of whole projects and the reflection of that on economic efficiency (return on investment) from solar photovoltaic projects. Such articles include: Price, Dollar Per Watt for Large Solar Photovoltaic Projects , Lowest Solar Panel Prices Per Watt 2009-02-24 and Economics of Solar Power. Our Lowest Solar Panel Prices Per Watt series will continue when we have a good update on the contenders in the top list. Notice that differently from many popular low price listings like that we do not charge the participants any fee. We have heard that some other lists not only get paid by the companies who get on the list but also at the moment if there is a company that has lower price they will to get listed because the spaces have already been taken and paid. What do you think about a top list like that. Well whatever you think – just know for a company to get to our list we have to find their product on the Internet through searching or the company has to send us links to their online store, we verify that there is believable evidence that the products truly can be purchased at that price and then we list the company without them having to pay and yes, what a concept, if there is a new company with lower prices we will list them before the other ones. Non non-sense rules with places already taken.

Again – expect more issues in our series on cheapest price dollar per watt peak for solar panels and modules. We plan to add analysis for other components like inverters, mounting hardware and wiring too.

We will try expand by braking down the list or at least explicitly emphasizing on the specific type of the panel (or comprising cell) when we talk about price per watt since the kind of technology used is defining with the price per watt.

The continuing growth, despite the global crisis, in the renewable energy businesses drives a lot of interest to our studies on large projects like Price, Dollar Per Watt for Large Solar Photovoltaic Projects . In many countries through feed-in-tariffs (FIT’s) and subsidies for the capital expenses in vesting in the solar power generation has become a very profitable business and there are growing number of large scale projects getting to the drawing board. We are working and planning to release very soon an analysis on what countries offer best investing environment for building a solar power station. The most important factors that we are after are solar insolation (a natural phenomenon – so not much related to current business environment), feed-in-tariffs, cost of construction, other possible factors like subsidies for building, tax environment. Our Economics of Solar Power and Solar Energy Land Area Efficiency or How Many Acres per MW, kWp per Acre have been under the radar for investors who plan new large projects. We were worried that having to use Euro as part of the cost analysis would be a problem but some of the readers have thanked us for this. We did actually do calculations in US dollar too, so, we home there was no confusion.

Interest towards information on off grid systems especially for remote installation like vacation homes, cabins, lake houses, hinting cabins has also grown. There sees to be growing interest in solar photovoltaic systems with batteries able to provide independent power supply in places where grid power is impossible or difficult to get.

The awareness of the benefits of using power has grown and we can tell there is a lot of interest towards the solar energy systems because of benefits different, or in addition to economic efficiency. We are planning an article on the benefits of solar beyond money, or at least beyond the purchase/acquisition price – revenue ratio. Some of the positives that are not directly related to economic efficiency do indirectly give economic benefits to their owners or to the economy and the society.

Another area of interest has been the breakdown of price for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. We talks about price per watt for components (solar panels for example) and for whole projects. It will be interesting to see how the total cost spent on a project are broken down by materials (components) and services (incl. labor).

Analysis on strategic issued of the governments like the role of renewables to replace at least partially the use of nonrenewable, toxic and imported fuels has drawn a lot of interest too. We plan to expand the analysis in that area too.

In addition to the free entry we offer of vendors on our cheapest solar panels per watt list we also have one of the most comprehensive free directories if the renewable energy business out there. Renewable Energy Directory. We build the directory based on our findings for popular and relevant websites and we include the websites and companies who simply contact us and want to be included in it. We do not ask for money to do that because we think this limits free and open competition.

We receive a lot of questions and comments through our Contact Us form. We do not publish those unless requested by the authors. Please feel free to comment through the Comment forms on most of our articles and other pages. Also please let us know if you want messages from you (that are not sent through the Comment forms) to be posted on the site and what credits and back links to include with them.

Solar Energy Land Area Efficiency or How Many Acres per MW, kWp per Acre

SolarByTheWatt.com — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:28:52 +0000

Solar power alongside the applauding it gets it is also being criticized by the opponents of it especially in terms of the different measures of efficiency – physical, economic (investment) and land area use efficiency. Land area use efficiency is the topic of this study. Let’s look at the definito0ns for the other measures of efficiency just to put our essay in proper context.

Physical efficiency for example is the measure of what portion of the light energy is being transformed to useful electric energy. That currently runs for different types of photovoltaic cell technologies between 8 and 30 and by some reports 38%. We will spare a separate article on the different technologies and their respective efficiency readings.

Economic efficiency or investment efficiency is the dollar cost per nominal generating watt power or simply dollar per watt peak ($/Wp). The investment efficiency can be calculated at the different stage of completeness of a solar photovoltaic system or component – cells, panels, installed systems, power stations. We want to dedicate special studies to the importance of these measures of efficiency. Be prepared to hear our opinion that economic, or investment efficiency is much more important to the useful implementation of this technology than physical efficiency is.

Land area use efficiency is the measure of how much land area is needed for certain capacity of nominal (peak) power of a solar photovoltaic power station (or smaller system). The units of measure used are usually:

acres per megawatt or acres per MW – the land area needed in acres per MW of generation; the way to calculate that is to divide the area used in a project in acres by the peak power of the project in MW;

kilowatt per acre or kW per acre – this is the amount of installed peak power in kW (1 MW = 1,000 kW) divided by the land area needed in acres.

The equivalent units of measure used more often overseas (incl. Europe) are using the derivatives of the metric system for land area – hectares (10,000 sq.meters) and decares (1,000 sq.meters) – hectares per MW, decares per MW and kW or MW per hectare or decare.

We wanted to find out what is the approximate land area efficiency of existing completed and planed projects or ones in progress. We looked first at some of the biggest solar photovoltaic projects around the world, tried to find out quoted figures for their peak capacity and land are used and calculate the land are use efficiency for them.

We also looked at publications discussing proposed project especially for technologies that are just emerging.

This is what we found out.

Some of the largest completed solar photovoltaic power plants, also called solar parks or fields, have area efficiency of about 4.5 to 8 acres per MW. This is when crystalline (mono-crystalline or poly-crystalline) technology cells, modules are used. With thin-film technologies the efficiency is about 10 to 13.5 acres per MW.

For comparison we also looked at data for some solar thermal project and we estimated land area use efficiency of about 5 to 11 acres per MW. The lower values were for projects involving Sterling engines as opposed to the more traditional technology of parabolic mirror throws heating oil in a tube.

Here is a table of our calculations with numbers in the other units of measure and also a list of the resources used.

Project No	Project	Capacity, DC Peak Power, Wp. MW	Land Used, hectares, 10,000 m2	Land Used, decares, 1000 m2
1	Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park	60	108	1,080
2	Puertollano Photovoltaic Park	47	150	1,500
3	Amareleja, Moura, Portugal	62	130	1,300
4	Waldpolenz Solar Park	40	220	2,200
5	Sempra Generation near Boulder City, NV	10	32	320
6	PG&E	6.4	64	640
7	Ivanpah	1,300	4250	42,500
8	Southern Ca. Edison, Stirling Eng. Systems	850	1830	18,300
9	Mojave Solar Park	553	2400	24,000

Project No	kWp/decare	kWp/acre	Acre/MW	Notes
1	55.6	224.83	4.45
2	31.3	126.80	7.89
3	47.7	193.00	5.18
4	18.2	73.58	13.59	Thin-film
5	31.3	80.00	12.50	Thin-film
6	10.0	81.00	12.35	Thin-film
7	30.6	123.79	8.08	Solar thermal
8	46.4	187.97	5.32	Sterling Engine
9	23.0	92.17	10.85	Solar Thermal

Resources used:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moura_photovoltaic_power_station

http://www.solarpay.com.au/mega-watts-to-nega-watts.html

http://www.jccm.es/fondosestructurales/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/00-NOTICIAS/2008_MARZO/07-03-08_LA_TRIBUNA-Renovalia_invierte_en_parque_solar_Puertollano.pdf

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/02/09/daily59.html?ana=from_rss

http://www.gizmag.com/go/4422/

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2007/07/pg-e-signs-agreement-with-solel-for-553-mw-of-solar-power-49448

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/_a/first_solar_finishes_10_mw_pv_power_plant_for_sempra_pge_to_buy_electricity/

http://www.abengoasolar.es/sites/solar/en/technologies/photovoltaic/concentration/index.html

http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/steering/2008-06-18_meeting/SOLAR_FS-Utility-Scale_Photovoltai

http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2008/08/massive-solar-pv-deal.html

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel3/60/654/00017907.pdf?arnumber=17907

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Lowest Solar Panel Prices Per Watt 2009-02-24

SolarByTheWatt.com — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:29:58 +0000

We are starting this a series of articles on lowest prices per watt for solar panels, modules where every time we have changes in the price ranking we will publish a new article with corresponding date in the title.

We list the lowest prices per watt that we can find on the internet and through direct research. We do not claim at all that these are research and results of an absolute character. That is, we realize that there might be products, vendors, pricing structures for certain types of projects and quantities that we are not able to identify through our effort.

That is why nobody should get offended that their product brand or vendor company is missed in our research or they are not ranked correctly because we have not found out about their lowest, low or otherwise competitive prices.

Namely, different prices may reflect different quality and quality preference of the market – i.e. higher quality products would maintain relatively higher prices given all other factors being equal.

In any case if any one buyer or seller of solar products thinks that our best research effort has not presented certain vendors, brand or price – please, feel free to contact us and forward to us details of the the product and price we should list. We will add additional level to research that such price is being offered on regular basis and will try to reflect this in our report.

Here is or current ranking:

($/Wp, $ per module, Wp of the module, nominal voltage, technology, Brand, Model, Vendor, URL to the vendor’s page)

$2.84 / Wp, $567.60, 200W, 18.1V, Poly-crystalline, Sun-A-200, SUN, KULLY Solar, http://kullysolar.com