No, those who don’t calculate properly are also to blame. In all cases, you pick out the best-of numbers for your calculation, neglect maintenance costs, and that doesn’t add up. You calculate with the cheapest system, best yield, and longest durability. A high-quality system can easily cost several thousand euros including installation and everything; you can have higher maintenance costs (which you hardly list here), maybe after 10 years someone has to clean it (depending on location), and so on. That’s cooking the books if you omit the "small" thing of 1,000 euros for insurance (for the 20 years) in the calculation and other things. After 10 years, cancelling insurance because the modules are then cheaper – in the last 10 years they haven’t become that much cheaper, so that’s pure speculation. Also, and that’s what I meant about insurance, your household/ fire etc. insurance usually gets more expensive with a solar system; just try telling the insurance company after 10 years that you still have the system but don’t want to pay. And even if you cook the books, it’s pretty close to the feed-in tariff; too close. Since all of this is just a rough calculation, you can also end up at 12 or 14 cents cost per kWh here! And now explain to me how I’m supposed to generate EV reasonably in my absence. I would now be on the island for 3 weeks, how do you do that? I think it’s very individual for every household whether it’s feasible without storage or not, and not as simple as you portray it. If you also retrofit household appliances or buy new ones so that it works, you also have to add these costs to the electricity costs of the photovoltaic system and then it definitely doesn’t pay off anymore (that quickly adds up to thousands). By the way, electricity has not become more expensive, only the state has added higher surcharges like for the feed-in tariff, so that end consumers pay more. Therefore, in 20 years (crystal ball mode on), the feed-in tariff will most likely be lower as well. Otherwise, people usually don’t calculate much beyond 20 years; then the system has to have “paid off,” so you basically don’t need to calculate much beyond that period; besides, it’s too much speculation what will be then. I don’t think you really make a profit with solar or that it’s really worthwhile. But at the moment you hardly get any interest for your money either, so if you really have money left over, you can put such a system on your roof; also, it gives you a good conscience. When you again safely get 4% interest on your money, you would have more from that than from solar (and it’s much easier).