Is it really necessary to make solar panels that expensive?
Unfortunately, yes. Solar panels require high-grade silicon which is very expensive. Also, volume sales aren't yet high enough to push down prices. Don't worry though, as people buy them and the technology matures it'll get cheaper. I remember DVD players costing $2000+. Now you can get one for less than $30.
it cost less then $000. to make a car if you add all the cost of the material the average car made in the USA is sold for 30,000. before the company make a profit they need to sell 6 cars to pay for the labor. With a solar panel system it cost depending on you kilowatt use then they figure out the life expectancy of the unit what your monthly ele bill would be and that is what it cost for your system and that is with out the carrier charge from your power company who charge you for both when you use or sell power to the grid and most of the systems sold are sold to tie into the grid. as far as how much does it cost to make a solar panel The reason they give the price per watt is that is how they charge to sell them The process is not as complicated as they make it The high cost is in the so called shortage in silicon they claim there is a shortage of the type of silicon used in making the chips but last I heard silicon is just sand and it is the eight most common element on the planet it is the same process used to make computer chips which you can by now for around a dozen for a penny put that does chips togethet and you have one of the around 00 chips in a solar panel so a solar panel costcost about fifty bucks to make solar panel 00 watt sells for around $50. for a starter kit they sell them 200 percent mark up minimum the big cost is in the installation .
I think it will cost about %0 Million US for a 50 Mega Watt Factory
First Solar recently announced that their costs to produce panels dropped below $ per watt. I don't know how much of that is accounting tricks. Of course, that doesn't mean that they would sell panels for that price - any capitalistic company is expected to drive the price up to what the market will bear. Crystalline silicon panel producers are coming in at about $2.50/watt right now for the best of them. But again, the selling price is what the market will bear.
