$1/watt is the current price for modules and installation, etc. can bring it up to $2-3, but for a large-scale installation of this size I would expect that you could get a discount on the panels and the total cost could be under $2 although I was not able to find any current figures for the going rate Arizona.
What I might be more concerned about is that their agreement to sell power is only for two years. Without storage, they may have a hard time getting good prices for mid-day power in the near future.
That chart shows cost per watt for a 100 MW utility scale project. Smaller projects like this one tend to have higher costs per watt even if they're also in the multi-megawatt "utility scale" class.
Right, but the solar panels aren't much use to anyone sitting in a dispatch bay at the manufacturer in China.
You'll probably want to get them freighted to the installation site, screwed down to a support frame, wired up to an inverted, connected to a load and / or the grid.
> The contractor hired and trained about 200 Navajos to build the plant, said Deenise Becenti, a spokeswoman for the tribal utility, leaving a qualified workforce for other projects.
This will be interesting to see how it plays out in future projects. I also wonder what they received for training / certifications. It was probably a requirement of their TERO.
