PV Pricing WAS A buying COOP was A wrenches convention [RE-wrenches]

[Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar]

I'm pretty sure Vince Schwent (maybe) of SMUD (for sure) put up a slide at
the Missouri Governor's Conference on Solar energy in December in front of
every utility, the Public Utility commission that showed they were buying PV
for less the 2$/watt and had contracts in place to be buying for nearly a 1$
per watt.  It showed that they were installing it for less than $4/watt.

I cornered him (in the bathroom) and he reassured me that they were real
numbers.

Travis

SNIP<Hi Bill,

>I agree with Michael.
>I am highly skeptical of anybody being able to purchase new PV modules at
>$1/watt. That would be well below the cost to produce the module; maybe by a
>factor of 2.5X o


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>From: "Michael Welch, Home Power" <michael.welch at homepower.com>
>To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
>Subject: Re: PV Pricing WAS A buying COOP was A wrenches convention [RE-wrenches]
>Date: Fri, Feb 9, 2001, 1:04 PM
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>Bill Loesch, Saint Louis Solar wrote at 06:21 AM 02/09/2001 -0800:
>   
>>Were you not in the restroom when Vince(?) said SMUD was buying PV for
>>$1/watt---ONE dollar per watt---because they were buying in quantity?
>
>I don't believe that for a moment. I also don't believe the $2 figure. But 
>I do think that bulk buying could bring some savings you could pass on to 
>customers, maybe in the 10-40% range.
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