> The prices are still dropping per watt.
replyFYI if you look into what has happened in the wholesale solar market since the end of 2025, this is no longer true. Prices are now 20% higher than they were in Nov/Dec, and were even higher earlier this year. Hard to predict the future but we may have reached a price floor, as at 2025 prices the module suppliers were below cost and losing money. The market dynamics have changed significantly since then
China may well save the world with green energy but I’m skeptical to assume we should just trust them to share their best intelligence with us freely, it’s a totally different think to sharing their best intelligence.
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replyThis comment has been flagged in our software as AI-generated. Of course it could be a false positive (though from reading it myself it does come across as LLM-influenced). But if you've used AI to write or polish the text, even just a little bit, please don't. The guidelines specifically ask us not to do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
replyCorrect. I used AI to refine the text. Thanks for the heads-up.
replyWhile this has clearly been written by / with help from an LLM, the general info is correct and matches what I have heard from those suppliers (although $0.21/W future pricing is far higher than the estimates I've seen)
replyPangram believes this is 100% AI generated. High confidence. If you just used AI to edit your work, then it would say it was human influenced or low confidence, which is contradictory to another comment you claimed.
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