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Summary
This
month, Solarbuzz entered 1,008 online inverter retail prices
in to its inverter price database, up marginally from last
month's 1,001 price points.
The
December result returned the low level of market activity,
after the significant number of moves inn November.
There
were 8 price decreases and 12 price increases this month.
In the previous month, there had been 43 price decreases
compared to 28increases.
The
US index was stable 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, but only modestly against the
euro. As a result, euro index was down to 0.561
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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