Solar panel prices very low

[Catweazle]

Are they likely to go lower ? Or can we expect them to go up ?

Decent quality 415 watt panels, 12 year warranty, 25 year performance guarantee, are now under £70 each.

Worth stocking up or not ?

https://www.wagner-renewables.com/produ ... all-black/

[Catweazle]

It looks to me as if adding panels to an existing inverter that has spare capacity will have a payback period of less than a year.

https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/solar-p ... 20the%20UK.

EBay is selling used 3 or 4 KW inverters for a couple of hundred pounds, add ten panels at £700 add cables and sundries at £300 (DIY stuff) and you could have an off grid system for less than £1500 that will generate over £750 worth of electricity a year.

Why is it all so cheap now ?

[adam2]

I expect PV prices to remain at about the present level.
Increasingly automated production is reducing prices, but there are limits to this.
The present low prices makes pv installation worthwhile even in non optimum locations.

[BritDownUnder]

Always worth stocking up on these things.

You could always make another car port/lean to with solar panels if you want to keep them somewhere.

In my experience the inverter will go first so keep a stock of them too.