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While the price of grid electricity has gone THROUGH THE ROOF, the price of solar power equipment hasn’t moved very much… and (news flash!) the amount charged by the sun for sending you energy… is still $0.00.
I just ran some price checks on solar equipment.
Inverters: The 4000w Giandel Pure Sine Wave inverter (UK) I bought for £493.99 in March 2022 is currently listed at £498.99. That’s only a 1.01% increase.
Solar Panels: The 160W Photonic Universe solar panels I purchased in 2021 for £159.99 are now £169.99 – a 6.2% increase.
You can also save money by buying bigger panels: 360w Photonic Universe solar panels (UK) are currently listed at £319.99 – this is a good quality panel and less than £1 per watt (which was once considered a “holy grail” price point). So this would work out as paying less than I paid a year ago for my solar rig.
In the “bigger picture”, the price of solar panels continues to tumble – photovoltaic panel prices are now around 1/3 of the price that they were ten years ago.
Batteries: The lead-acid deep cycle batteries I bought last year at £159.99 each are now £199.99 – a 25% increase.
However this is still MUCH less than the electricity price increases.
UK electricity is up an astonishing 80% and gas up 101% – with further price increases expected in 2023.
“Price cap guarantees” make it sound like someone is doing you a bureaucratic favour; but the money has to come from somewhere – which means taxes go up too. So does this mean that while they make it look like they are protecting you, they take the money out of your pocket with the other hand (and give it to their corporate pals)?
Call me an old cynic if you like. I call it manufactured scarcity and I think it’s all a big hustle.
The USA has been less extortionate than the UK on energy prices in 2022 – with the national average electricity price up a “mere” 14.3% from August 2021 to August 2022.
The good news is that relative to the electricity prices that are being sent through the roof, solar is now on super discount.
It’s more cost effective than ever. The amount of time it takes for your setup to pay for itself, as compared to the cost of ordinary electricity, has shortened.
Plus you get the opportunity to give the finger to the electricity companies and their polluting shenanigans.
There’s nothing we can do about their prices… but we can exit from their system. They are not the only game in town nor are they the best!
News flash: The amount of sunlight falling on the earth is about the same as it was.
There’s no shortage of sunlight and there isn’t likely to be one soon.
Who said free energy is a myth?? It’s being GIVEN TO US DAILY by the sun!
There’s never been a better time to go solar. Unplug from this ghastly energy economy – literally as well as metaphorically – and avail yourself of the REAL, natural energy that is truly ours for the taking.
Off grid solar is also RESILIENT. No power outages and they can’t cut you off for not paying the bill – because you don’t have a bill! When the power goes out for others, life goes on as normal for you.
There’s every reason to go solar and I can’t think of a reason not to.
And no – I don’t work for any solar power companies. I’ve just been championing this cause since the 1990s, when I bought that first beautiful, crystalline blue solar panel and saw a vision of a better future.
You can always get a small solar setup in order to figure out how it all works, run a few appliances and put a dent in your bills.
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Manufactured Scarcity
Manufactured scarcity is a scam. They have figured out they can do this to you now.
Remember how in 2020 the banks cut the interest rate on your savings to 0.01%?
Did you also notice that they didn’t put it back up again for ages after the lockdowns were over?
Did you ALSO notice that while doing this, MANY banks – not just a few – posted record profits in 2020 and 2021?
That’s right. They made out like banksters while you suffered.
They did not do this “because they needed to”.
They did this because they took an opportunity to squeeze you, with plausible deniability.
I want you to squeeze.. and squeeze… and SQUEEZE!!!
They don’t care. Their mentality is that if they have a chance, they will eat your lunch and that if you let them, hey it is your problem pal.
Similar scenario with lumber prices (there were no less trees in 2021 than there were in 2020 and no shortage of people to work on them). It was a price squeeze by a monopoly of sawmills.
Now in 2022 they saw their opportunity to slam oil prices through the roof.
The Saudis did this in the 1970s – not because there was a shortage, but because they could.
There is no less oil in 2022 than there was in 2021. It’s a fungible commodity that finds its way around the world like any other fungible commodity.
Oil price underpins the economic structure to a significant extent. Its price will affect ALL other prices – because most of our infrastructure runs on it.
Electricity has followed next.
Everything else has now become more expensive to produce – and thus consumer goods of all kinds go up.
The flipside is that solar is now MASSIVELY DISCOUNTED compared to the price of oil / grid electricity.
There has never been a better time to go solar.
Go solar! Cut loose from their CONTROL.
There’s a bit of a learning curve. I’ve been messing around with solar panels since the mid 1990’s – when my first 80 watt panel cost £400. £5 per watt!! Now the price of panels is around $1 per watt, depending on the size and quality of the panel.
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