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Summary
For
the most part, inverter retail prices have been relatively
steady over the last year according to this survey research
approach. During 5 of the last 12 months, the number of
price increases has outpaced decreases, for the other 7
months the opposite has been true.
Solarbuzz
surveyed 955 online inverter retail prices in to its inverter
price database, up from last month's 918 price points.
There
were 20 price increases and 24 decreases, which compares
to 37 increases and 18 decreases the previous month. The
US index showed a small increase this month.
The
All Inverter Index (see right) includes the full basket
of Inverters on the worldwide survey represented in US dollars
and European, Euros. Further segmentation of this data can
be accessed through
our consultancy services.
The Price Index (see right) is based on Prices per Continuous
Watt - which is a measure of the output power of Inverters.
The larger the Continuous Watt, the larger the power of
the Inverter.
The same calculation methodology applies to this Index as
the Solar Module index - i.e. it is based on the purchase
price
for a single Inverter. The main difference in methodology
between this Index and the Solar Module Index is that all
global inverter prices are aggregated in to a single Index.
Those aggregated products are then simply translated from
the local currency in to either US dollars or European euros.
This
month, the dollar weakened against the euro. As a result,
euro index was down to 0.519 per continuous watt.
The mix of Inverter Retailers is still dominated by US Retailers.
Around 90% of the prices are quoted in US dollars.
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