{"id":297,"date":"2026-10-09T15:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/?p=297"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:10:13","slug":"excel-model-to-analyze-the-profitability-of-a-solar-panel-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/2026\/10\/09\/excel-model-to-analyze-the-profitability-of-a-solar-panel-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel model to analyze profitability of a solar panel purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I prepared an Excel file to analyze profitability (in NPV \/ IRR terms) of a solar panel purchase. I hope that this model is helpful for all others who might also consider making the same kind of purchase. The model should be flexible enough to suit any country, but it is prepared with starting values that reflect my purchase here in Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1350\/2026\/10\/Solar-panel-profitability-analysis-Public.xlsx\">Link to the Excel-file<\/a>. The required password to open the file is Solar_ Panel_ Finland (remove spaces after _).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1350\/2026\/10\/SolarPanelAnalysis-1024x485.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative picture showing the upper left corner of the Excel file.\" class=\"wp-image-299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1350\/2026\/10\/SolarPanelAnalysis-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1350\/2026\/10\/SolarPanelAnalysis-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1350\/2026\/10\/SolarPanelAnalysis-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1350\/2026\/10\/SolarPanelAnalysis.jpg 1118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I prepared an Excel file to analyze profitability (in NPV \/ IRR terms) of a solar panel purchase. I hope that this model is helpful for all others who might &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/moovai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}