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Graeme Harrold
Simple question, does anyone know the true carbon cost of manufacturing a solar panel? Just have a customer who likes cuddling trees wanting to know roughly the true carbon payback on the system.
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Can't remember where I read it the answer was they'd paid for themselves within 2 years
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Most manufacturers are claiming 2 years for embodied energy when they are made but I don't think that covers the transport from wherever they are coming from. If you add that in it might come to £3.15 
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Carbon payback is similar to any other - it depends on the amount generated so depends on the location. It may be 2 years in Spain but more like 3-4 in the UK.
There's plenty of literature on the web - this is a good doc (though a few years old) http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
There's plenty of literature on the web - this is a good doc (though a few years old) http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
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