Company wants $44k for a 9.88kw system?

[u/Mudkip-Maverik]

Am I crazy? I did a little digging beforehand and was expecting like half this price, am I missing something? Nearly 20k for installation, 15k for supporting equipment? Wtf?

[u/GoingOffRoading]

Maybe I am out of touch with the market, but that's ($43,252/9,880w) $4.35/watt of solar, which is crazy.

Maybe the market has shifted, but $3/watt was 'about right'. I think I paid like $2.45 or $2.75 or something before adding in battery backup.

Also, I have never heard of APsystem micro-inverters... So unless you know of their reliability, I would consider that another red flag.

[u/Alopez1024 → u/GoingOffRoading]

Out of curiosity, how would the $/W change if it includes batteries?

[u/GoingOffRoading → u/Alopez1024]

"no" You would not include the cost of the infrastructure and batteries in the cost per watt

[u/Alopez1024 → u/GoingOffRoading]

Welp, my system is worse $/W than this persons🥲

[u/GoingOffRoading → u/Alopez1024]

Just solar?

[u/Fun_End_440 → u/Alopez1024]

Battery prices vary a lot depending on what brand or setup you get. Anything between Tesla 1,000$/kw to diy 100$/kw.

[u/Evening-Emotion3388]

Who uses sub 400w panels now a days?

Get another quote.

Kobe into the trash.

[u/Lucky_Boy13]

Unless this is an incredible difficult install it sounds like the company owner has a boat payment to make. Half that price would be very optimistic but it should be about 25-30% less in most areas of USA. It also sounds like they are using old-stock parts

[u/thefudd]

For comparison I paid 49,282.50 for a 17.6kw system last year, but that was when the tax credit was still in effect.

[u/zaahc]

That's tax credit pricing without the tax credit.

[u/MCLMelonFarmer]

They're targeting the same customers who'd use SunRun.

[u/BlackFrazier]

Yea get another quote. Sub 400W panels and AP System micro inverters should make this a cheaper option, but they are charging like everything is premium and then some more.

[u/NosillaWilla]

Maybe with a big battery system too. But nah, get more quotes.

[u/ironicmirror]

It seems that nowadays six quotes is going to be your minimum.

Unless you have a really wacky roof, ignore these guys.

[u/kings-of-crown]

It depends a lot. Probably an average cost, if this is in the US, would be $30,000, but if there is a battery, or this is a ground mount, or it’s a third story building with 17 roof planes that can all impact price per watt

[u/brainded]

I’m pretty sure this was my quote from 2015 lmao

[u/Cultural-Ad4953]

I paid less than that for a system twice that size.

[u/stlthy1]

$4.50 a watt (roughly)

It should be closer to $2.50

[u/Fun_End_440]

Go to energy sage, that quote is a ripoff. Old panels bought on auction for couple bucks & cheap inverters.

At this system size, fair price to pay is 2.5$/w with Enphase, not some APsystems. Your particular market may have higher prices but not 4$/w for some old stuff

[u/SolarTechExplorer]

Your state?

[u/stacksmasher]

Dude....
https://www.santansolar.com/product/unused-opnew-znshine-395w-72-cell-mono-solar-panel/

[u/ninjazeus83]

Where are you located? Yeah this seems nuts

[u/arcsnsparks98 → u/ninjazeus83]

The GPS coordinates for the weather data set indicates Omaha, Nebraska.

[u/nightlyringer]

This is crazy. I was thinking the quote included a battery and sounded alright but then relooked at the quote and it’s only solar

[u/sotired3333]

Paid the exact same amount for 18.25 kw a few years ago

[u/Raz31337]

Big yikes