Cannonpointer » 04 May 2014 12:08 pm » wrote:
Let us recap: The panels have 200 bucks worth of materials and a day's labor. They sell for 14 thousand dollars.
I can certainly see a soft spot between 400 bucks and 14,000 bucks - but I have no plan whatsoever to go after it. I was not born yesterday. Underwriters Laboratory, as I said before, is a Wall Street gate keeper protecting those profits. There are millions of handy Americans with access to this information. The math is the math. The politics are the politics. The law is the law.
Wall Street is Wall Street. Capitalism is capitalism. Free enterprise is free enterprise. I have explained how this works. There is no home for me or any other free enterpriser, between the 400 and the 14 thousand. That's a chimera.
The current costs for installation of PV varies per watt depending upon your location. If you can come in under that, you've got a gig. Of course this also requires the proper license and insurance. I suggest you build the panels yourself, and team up with an electrical contractor in your state to install them. Here's a good guideline to determine your coast, and what you could realistically charge to be competitive.
http://solarpowerauthority.com/how-much ... -us-house/