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2008 called. It wants its prices back.

A visit to sunelec.com or santansolar.com yields a litany of panels for sale well under $1/W. Half the offerings on Amazon are below $1/W as well.

As such, nowadays you should be paying no more than $10k for a 5kW system.

10k+install+taxes=15k-20k

"But why don't we pay it off in Canadian dollars and save ourselves some money?"

"Just so you know, if that's a route you want to follow, it's 50,000 American, It would be 70,000, roughly, Canadian dollars."

"How are we going to come up with $120,000?!"