New solar efficiency records make solar cheapest electricity in the world

New solar efficiency records make solar cheapest electricity in the world

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[dougisaacson]

Great Job praying for your sweet wife!

[waynethefridgemanosborne]

I remember taking my simple solar toy into school that considered in 2 small panels and a small motor in about 1975 in London. Everyone said that will never catch on . So glad I was right about something. Keep smiling everyone

[grandrapids]

I have come to very much appreciate the work and information you put into this channel!

[MarksElectricLife]

Nice to see! Efficiency is most important when space is limited. Otherwise you can just add another panel. These will sell if the price is right but if they are a premium price most owners will opt for one more cheaper panel. We had 22% panels available 10 years ago but they didn’t sell due to the high price.

[waynefaram]

Ok. FRANCE. Just want to correct this (I’m in the South of France with masses of sun). The new law applies to new commercial premises - I bet he said that and I missed it. They can either put solar panels up or Yep I said plants!!!!. The other thing is that I don’t see many of these panels at all here, and I know the Mairie (Town Halls) are not always very friendly towards them. They often object to them because of the aesthetics, so if your’e living in your villa amongst carefully designed properties, you ain’t going to be getting them anytime soon unless you live within a ‘liberal’ commune. Absolutely nuts. Masses of sunshine here. We should all have them. Rock on Sam. Keep spreading the good news. 👍

[sbljackson]

It should be mandatory that all parking lots and buildings with enough sun exposure, get solar panels.

[timv]

You have a better solar exposure in Australia, here in the Uk we really need 30% panels, like the new perovskite panels are supposed to produce.

[timmitchell]

For most home applications, the important thing is peak power per installed cost, not peak power per area. (i.e. kWp/$, not kWp/m2). But yes, in the long run better kWp/m2 will lead to better kWp/$. Solar and wind are indeed the future.

[danielking]

These panels sound great, but even the older used panels are cost-effective when space is not limited.
My ground -mounted 60 250w system is almost replacing the power for two houses.When the batteries are topped off at night with cheaper rates, there is little grid support needed in the daytime.
The key to get the most out of your investment is batteries. The battery bank can be scaled up piece by piece, paying cash to stay out of the grip of greedy lenders.

[RussellFineArt]

This is true, solar is now the least expensive technology of power generation on earth and will continue to get less expensive and will dominate energy generation.

[stephenbrickwood]

If you generate power on your roof then the following;

No extra transmission grid to get electricity to the 20million buildings in Australia.

No extra support structure up in the sunshine like the civil/structural engineering needed on green field renewable sites or access roads.

The existing national grid is UNLOADED by 50% and available for other uses.

Those are massive cost savings to big government.

Edit, EV batteries will be 100kwh and need to be topped up.
20million vehicles in Australia.

[ramblerandy]

Indeed Sam, it is great to hear of the advances in SWB. We need much more of it if we're going to kick this fossil-fuel habit. But the trend is most definitely there.
BTW, it must a measure of your popularity because I notice that your video comments section is being hi-jacked by investment trolls, which have zero to do with whatever is being presented. It's usually the top answer.

[eugeniobb]

20 years ago commercial modules were around 14%. This means a 0, 5% improvement in efficiency per year. Not bad.

[PeteZam]

i mean if you are talking to someone and they tell you solar only lasts for 10 years and then you have to throw it out, you should immediately stop paying attention to anything that person has to say.

[justaninja]

Don't forget nuclear. Wind has many issues.

[Slebonson]

My solar roof made 20.77 MWh last year, and I don't use that much Energy at my house. I also still have an electric bill of about one hundred a month. But in the summer it goes up to 3-4 hundred a month. Gotta love the Utility companies corruption.

[iareid]

Mr Viking,
That cost is only to the seller to the wholesale market. The cost to incorporate that power to the grid is added and that is why the consumer continues to pay more and more per unit. The consumer will not see any 'benefit'.
Are you aware that in Australia (at least some states) are deliberately switch off solar input due to there being too much installed and disrupting the grid.

[budgetaudiophilelife-long]

👋 THANKS SAM, WE LOVE ❤️ SOLAR ENERGY NOW AND ONLY GOING TO GET BETTER 🤗😎💚💚💚

[nasapps]

Solar works, even in the northerly Netherlands: 17.68 billion kWh in 2022, about 17% of total Dutch electricity production. And The Netherlands is now a net exporter of electricity (major customers Germany and UK). There is more wind than solar, both growing fast. Few other sustainable sources: 40% of NL electricity was sustainable in 2022. The rest: nuclear (5%), coal and mostly gas. And this is NORTH, like Britain, compare to America: this is in middle of the Canada's Hudson Bay. Even then, lots of solar, mostly in summer. Today, midday, early March 2023: solar peeked at 8.33 GWatts early March partly cloudy and very windy day. Land wind power peeked at about 5.5GW after which some was shut due to heavy winds. Sea-wind adds another 4GW at the moment. All sources grow with tens of percentages yearly, saving natural gas which recently flowed cheaply from Russia. Can Europe go sustainable? Certainly! With solar, wind, bio-mass, geo-thermal, hydro and batteries. But batteries won't do it for seasonal fixing: very large scale hydrogen or molten salts or geo-heat batteries and hydrogen-carbon combinations need to be generated in the summer to produce extra power for the winter and these technologies are innovating fast! As the objective is to become CO2 neutral, some people are happy we now are forced to move towards sustainabe. There is none of the lots of coal, gas and oil which used to come from Russia. That nation had so much potential (!), sick and sad story - of course freedom and democracy always wins because that is based on the truth One of those truths: we, you and I, are responsible for this earth. If we are not, who is? In any case, all of Europe is pushing through this transition with amazing speed and accelerating! This increases innovation worldwide (the Chinese may lead in solar, Europe has developed a strong wind energy industry, special focus is on the high seas where there are powerful winds), the world is moving into ever improving territory! Thanks Sam for your show and positives vibes to your family!

[djash]

No one is talking about it because they’re all invested in big oil from past traditional trading but now are torn between a slippery slope and total shock