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Comment by coryrc

3 days ago

And still much more than the cost of the solar panels, which was GP's point.

GP only has two panels that generate 960 W (I’m going to generously assume NMOT and not STC). That’s hardly anything, and certainly not what I would use to try and charge 10 kWh of battery like they’re suggesting.

But sure, I agree it would help if battery prices came down.

  • During the day when nobody's home the panels are charging the battery.

    Obviously more panels are better.

    The goal is to be able to run a small window AC unit and various small appliances at night. That's a tremendous quality-of-life upgrade for a huge number of people. $1000 USD would make it somewhat affordable, in the window for a viable small business/NGO opportunity. There's obviously a whole lot more (installation, labor, maintenance, etc), but material cost needs to be low for it to work.