Solar Grid Parity

Where’s an Australian Solar manufacturing industry when you need one?

In the last week, my family added 4.6kW of solar generation capacity to our roof, with a provision to increase this to over 9kW.

I gather I am not the only person in the world doing this.

According to many sites online Deutsche Bank just released new analyses concluding that the global solar market will become sustainable on its own terms by the end of 2014, no longer needing subsidies to continue performing.

Reports say that the German-based bank said that rooftop solar is looking especially robust, and sees strong demand in solar markets in India, China, Britain, Germany, India, and the United States.

As a result, Deutsche Bank actually increased its forecast for solar demand in 2013 to 30 gigawatts — a 20 percent increase over 2012.

The Deutsche Bank report can be found here.

I gather I am not the only person doing this in Victoria, that is also obvious.

It is interesting to note that total CO2 emissions for Victoria at this stage of 2013 are 9.2% lower than at a similar stage last year. Of course there are numerous reasons/drivers for this, but the figures are interesting, none-the-less.

Baselines for emissions:

• 1990: 20% above
• 2000: 7.3% below

Industry

We chose Q-Cells, originally manufactured by the German company but now wholly owned by South Korean Hanwha Q-Cells. Production is in Germany and Malaysia.

Our inverter is the German made SMA Sunny Boy.