youradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking offwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@beehaw.org
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minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoIt’s going to be hard to justify production costs, but in places that subsidize it: it makes perfect sense to scale up solar wherever possible.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThe actual problem are electricity prices rising higher and that shortens to time to reach the equilibrium between the investetment
minus-squareSaleh@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHard to justify costs? The article quotes 6 years of amortization. I know numbers around 8-10 years in Germany. Show me any consumer investment, that gives such a good ROI.
minus-squareKrik@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago8-10 years is a fully fledged pv system. The small balcony panels pay themselves after about 5 years, longer if you add a battery.
It’s going to be hard to justify production costs, but in places that subsidize it: it makes perfect sense to scale up solar wherever possible.
The actual problem are electricity prices rising higher and that shortens to time to reach the equilibrium between the investetment
Hard to justify costs? The article quotes 6 years of amortization. I know numbers around 8-10 years in Germany.
Show me any consumer investment, that gives such a good ROI.
8-10 years is a fully fledged pv system. The small balcony panels pay themselves after about 5 years, longer if you add a battery.