Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

At the beginning of September, apples from New Zealand at Edeka are cheaper than the apples from the local supplier just a few kilometers away.

In case you didn’t know yet: apples have a natural "expiration date" and are seasonal fruit. This expiration date is artificially extended through elaborate cooling. Since the German apples have already been cooled for several months, they are consequently more expensive than the imports. I think (not sure) that from March onwards the CO2 footprint of local and imported apples is the same.

Before complaining, one can simply inquire about the reasons.

As I said, do the full cost accounting. and then present it transparently here. I think you are sugarcoating your calculations, it might be that I am wrong. But I don't think so, because on other boards real experts do the calculations back and forth and all come to the same conclusion.

Who doesn't like to sugarcoat their own expenses? You want to have a good feeling about it. :D I will make a calculation and then we'll see what I forgot :p

At the beginning of September, apples should not be cooled for months, as they are freshly harvested. And as for the "necessity" of cooling... there are also so-called storage apples. They do not require special cooling, a cellar is sufficient. They are not really edible before Christmas either. But presumably too much effort for industrial agriculture ;)

What do you actually want to tell me.

At the end of August is the apple harvest of the local fruit producers. 10 km away from [Edeka] is such a large fruit farmer. I know him personally very well. You will not find his apples, freshly harvested and top quality, in [Edeka]. He is a few cents too expensive. What you find are the carefully cooled and certainly not as healthy apples from New Zealand. I had them in my own hands.

The same with cherries from Turkey or strawberries from Bulgaria. That is ecological nonsense.

The local fruit farmer cannot compete with import prices. He shouldn’t have to. He has to market directly and people buy directly too. I don’t want apples from New Zealand. They are mostly bought only by the green do-gooders with a vegan dietary philosophy.

Otherwise, the Senec storage is already very expensive, at least according to an offer I have. And they didn’t even want to use the standing scaffold from the roofer. Then only on the house roof, which was completely nonsensical because next door there was a perfectly oriented south roof on the barn to be covered. They didn’t want to do that. I didn’t like it at all.

How expensive is it supposed to be? For me, it was supposed to cost €8,000 net 2 years ago. Thanks to a €2,000 subsidy, I ended up paying €6,000. It is the V3 hybrid duo with 10kw and integrated inverter.

The system should cost me about 30,000 euros including tax. Including the storage, we were somewhere around 3500 euros per kWp of photovoltaics. It was extremely expensive anyway. The offer was from February 2021. As I said, I have now built it myself with a 10 kW storage and 7.2 kW photovoltaics and ended up at 11k gross. However, with a Huawei system.