[RE-wrenches] Fwd: Solar Panels for 98 Cents Per Watt

[Dave Click]

In Photon's side-by-side module test a few years ago, I remember that 
one of the worst-performing modules (in kWh/kW) had marketing materials 
that targeted the off-grid market. The author suggested that by 
targeting off-grid, they were able to obscure their low production- 
perhaps another reason why this email is targeting that market.

That being said, those 98c/W Kanekas look interesting...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Fwd: Solar Panels for 98 Cents Per Watt
From: Windsun at wind-sun.com <windsun at wind-sun.com>
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Date: 2009/12/10 12:21

> That 98c/w is for those Kaneka high voltage thin film panels. Not a bad 
> price per watt, but they are pretty inneficient - around 7% - so they 
> take up twice as much space for the same watts.
> 
> The blems that I saw were also more than just "spotting".
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howie Michaelson" 
> <howie at suncatchervt.com>
> To: <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:02 AM
> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Fwd: Solar Panels for 98 Cents Per Watt
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The message below was received by a friend of mine who has done all his
> own installation work, including being an early adopter of the FIT program
> while living in Germany many years ago.  He is wondering if this is a good
> deal for his off-grid system.
> 
> What thoughts are there about the points made in this pitch?  This is the
> type of marketing that more and more of my clients are seeing.
> 
> Has anyone had any traffic with Sun Electronics that they care to relate?
> 
> And, I thought at least the Evergreen blemishes were about minorly
> misaligned cells, not spots.
> 
> Thanks,
> Howie