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To: Eric who wrote (70274)	5/29/2016 12:11:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86350

Personal experience may not be any more accurate then other reporting (you can misunderstand the details of personal experience, forgetting to include some important factor, also it can be inaccurately reported) and in any case only case is only relevant to a specific example. If solar really was cheaper there would be no need for any subsidies, tax credits, feed-in tariffs, purchase requirements etc. It would just be the cheaper solution the market would settle on. Also to the extent it isn't all that expensive - Its not just about price per kw/h (and definitely isn't just about price compared to rated capacity). 1 - Solar can't produce all the time, that's a big negative. 2 - Solar is largely about a big upfront expense with much lower ongoing costs. Interest rates are unusually low right now. What happens when they go up? What happens when eventually they go up a lot? All of the sudden solar becomes much more expensive.