Solar panel price and inflation.

[Mattb4]

After being in Town yesterday, and having to pay more for just about everything I bought, it struck me about the price for solar panels. I remember my first ones I bought were close to $1.35/watt 6 years ago whereas now I can buy the same watt rated panel for 60-65 cents/watt (with delivery included in the price) in many cases. Pretty amazing if you factor in Inflation the last few years. Hard to see how that can be.

You would think that even with mass manufacturing that the price of basic materials and all the logistics of making and selling panels would prevent prices from dropping to much more.

Is there a floor to how low new solar panel cost per watt can reach? Waht do you think new panels prices are going to be a year from now, 10 years from now?

 

[Danke]

And more efficient. I’m getting them ~$0.30/watt delivered now.

 

[Mattb4]

@Danke 30 cents a watt delivered? Heck of a good price. Would you care to share where you are getting that when buying new panels?

 

[Danke]

@Danke 30 cents a watt delivered? Heck of a good price. Would you care to share where you are getting that when buying new panels?

It was a large order from China. If you don’t need a lot, probably need to find other guys to go into with for such an order.

 

[upnorthandpersonal]

This is available right here in expensive Finland (price including 24% VAT):

AURINKOPANEELI ASTRONERGY 410 W HC PERC MONO

Tekniset tiedot Astroenergy…

aurinkosahkotukku.fi

That's $0,25 or so at the time of writing. They're brand new. Delivery for an entire palette of 36 of these to my door was 99Euro, so a total of $0,26 per Watt including delivery.

 

[kommando]

Any new local housing development near to me is mandated to include solar panels where the roof points the right way ie South or East and West. New builds are bought by the young with families with both parents working and the kids at school so during peak production no one is home. Selling surplus to the grid gets you a really low price, so a deal is done. PV panels are not installed but put in garage, roof gets fully tiled, no inverter or wiring then once the development is finished an enterprising home owner will buy up the panels taking up space in the garages and sell them off. So I paid £0.24 per watt when I bought 19 270W panels, all brand new never been installed. Only issue is they are the sort that go on a roof instead of tiles so they are a bit heavier but also more rigid. On a cold day just after the sun has exited from behind a cloud I have seen 330W output per panel before the panels warm up.

 

[OPTIMALSOLAR]

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[SamDeleted]

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[SeaGal]

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& what is your point

So I paid £0.24 per watt when I bought 19 270W panels, all brand new never been installed.

Good.. but right now you can buy new 410W panels in the UK for £0.25 / watt including our 20% VAT.

 

[SamDeleted]

& what is your point

I think my point was clear ?

 

[kommando]

Good.. but right now you can buy new 410W panels in the UK for £0.25 / watt including our 20% VAT.

But then I would have lost a year's worth of output waiting for that deal ?

 

[G00SE]

I don’t think id pay more than 35c/w now. So grateful to see these prices compared to years past

 

[DIYrich]

Is there a floor to how low new solar panel cost per watt can reach?

price of sand.

 

[upnorthandpersonal]

Full pallet of 410W panels now: 79 Euro/piece including 24% VAT. Delivered to the door for 99 Euro:

36 KPL LAVA, 79 €/KPL ASTROENERGY 410 W HC PERC MONO

Tekniset tiedot Astroenergy RAJOITETTU ERÄ !

aurinkosahkotukku.fi

That's 0.19 Eurocent per Watt.

 

[Farhan.]

Great point about the price drop! It’s crazy how affordable panels have become, especially with inflation being so high. I've been following the trend in Pakistan too, and it’s interesting to see how prices have shifted in recent years. For example, I found a detailed price breakdown for panels and suppliers in Pakistan for 2025 on a site I came across: SolarSathi.

Would love to know how pricing is looking in other parts of the world, especially with the price of materials changing so much.

 

[Chispas]

Would love to know how pricing is looking in other parts of the world, especially with the price of materials changing so much.

Link to the English version of a Spanish site Prices have cratered here in the last few years but LFP batteries are still more expensive than the USA. There isn't much of a discount for volume unless you have a business account, but delivery is included for 2 or more panels or over €150 total order value.
Edit. The price delivered is about €0.19 per W

 

[SeaGal]

Same in UK, trade price on 450W panels around 50 GBP.

 

[Dagoth Ur Does Solar]

Seeing this thread from two years ago is crazy... The pallet I bought like two weeks ago came out to a little over $0.20 USD per watt (~$70 per panel), and that's on 390W bifacials, not counting any potential bifacial gains. It would have been something like $0.17 per watt if I didn't have to have them freight shipped.

This stuff just keeps getting cheaper.

 

[Chispas]

Let’s see what tarrifs do to price per W.