I use IB, and…

7. I do my IRA stuff there, traditional and Roth. In fact, just rolled my $7k 2026 Traditional into my 2026 Roth about ten minutes ago.

8. when I need help I have spoken to humans twice. Mostly don’t need much help because I’m not a trader - buy, hodl

Newer modules use less silver per module:

I’ve not read the book either, this is more a comment on political stuff surrounding the topic - and you’re definitely not chatting with me due to my political wisdom and experience :)

We’ve done the impossible! Abundance!

Also the abundance’ thing is a right wing Koch brother creation that has been getting pushed for almost a decade now.

Isn’t 400 MW times 52 weeks, 20.8 GW? And are t we doing at least double that already?

I could pay for a dinner out for two with one of these, no wine though

Goes even further:

$1.42/W - about the same price to construct the project.

So, yes, it killed this project. $1 million would be stretching it.

In that case, it had both, and didn't go forward.

The rule of thumb I have in the spreadsheet is $0.15/Wdc for grid upgrade costs. For these projects, we'd budgeted a little higher - $300,000 total for potential substation upgrades (didn't expect powerline upgrades).

And technically, already happens in MA. Also, these costs don't apply to resi - they don't upgrade the grid and need utility inspections.

In MA, projects below 15 kWac don't pay any grid upgrade costs when connecting to upgraded substations. Commercial Projects pay the CIP fee though.

Ahhh, I'd argue costs range quite a bit - here's a separate project's interconnection costs. Got one for $10 million floating around if you're interested. :-)

Honk gaggle honk

Was wondering if my currency conversion was wrong initially, as agreed, total value not great.

but...

Silver going from 5% to 14%, for a $0.0.8-0.1/W cost module adds ~$0.0072-0.009, meaning the $0.003 is 33-42% of that. Not bad actually.

Also, silver for higher efficiency is now premium product.

My guess is, based on how LONGi makes decisions, is that the price decrease vs efficiency decrease, will not leas to a next *increase* of levelized cost of electricity from the modules.

Meaning, efficiency losses, which drive up overall generation costs, won’t overpower long term ROI.