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Summary
Retail
inverter prices maintain their pattern of erratic price
moves - one month up, the next month down.
This
proved to be the case again this month. In October, 43 price
increases had outpaced 26 increases. However, in this month's
survey there were no price increases, but 12 price decreases
were logged.
The
small number of price moves was not sufficient enough to
move the US index.
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 was unchanged against the euro over the
month. As a consequence, the euro index was unchanged at
0.489 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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