{"id":15,"date":"2008-07-28T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geniusblog.zokul.com\/2008\/07\/28\/solar-power\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T02:19:02","slug":"solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"solar power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>utilities were asking for a 30% price-increase lately. we pay about 17 cents per kWh (incl all taxes, fees, charges etc they can come up with!). solar panels are about $ 3.75 per W, plus inverter costs etc you end up with about $4000 per kW right now. if you do the math you&#8217;ll see that even today it would pay for itself after 6-8 years, even w\/o an increase! also production of silicon for cells will increase 4 fold over the next 3 years (businessweek article), could get cheaper though greater demand may stabilize the prices &#8230; but 30% more for a kWh is a LOT! guess it&#8217;s really time now to invest, at least get part of your demand covered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>utilities were asking for a 30% price-increase lately. we pay about 17 cents per kWh (incl all taxes, fees, charges etc they can come up with!). solar panels are about $ 3.75 per W, plus inverter costs etc you end up with about $4000 per kW right now. if you do the math you&#8217;ll see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-cng-and-electrons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}