Cor wrote:
that is why - next week, someone will come to inspect my home > to
establish whether he wants to make a bid on delivering me a system
and I have already received a bid from SolarCity.
I've had SolarCity and SunPower quote grid-tie PV systems for our home.
Provided you have the cash available, it didn't make sense to do
anything but buy the systems outright.
They both came in at $4/watt installed, with SunPower offering a higher
capacity system for our limited roof size. That was the main difference
between them.
Since I really wanted a battery back-up system like the one we had in
our previous home, I asked SunPower if they could provide just their
high efficiency solar panels, and I'd have a local contractor provide
the rest of the system based on the Outback Radian inverters, charge
controllers and monitors.
The pricing they offered for panels-only was not at all competitive. It
seems to me that they don't want to just sell panels. They want that
$4/watt.
Maybe now with the Tesla battery units becoming available, I can get
SolarCity to quote a battery backup system. I still don't expect them to
be price competitive. My impression is that they don't think that they
need to be competitive.
Len Moskowitz
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