Step 5: Pricing                                                                                                                              Boyd Solar

Updated February 9th 2012

Our pricing page includes all you need to budget for your future system and offers direct purchasing for our smaller systems. A budget is necessary before contacting us so we have a starting point for building your system.

Please Note that Boyd Sizes systems to the amount of solar, this is the traditional way and bears directly on the power you can collect and use. Other outlets may advertise inverter Watts which is misleading since it has no bearing on the amount of energy you produce in a day, only what can be instantaneously converted. Our ETL approved power panels include more features in terms of safety and monitoring compared to bargain or catalogue systems that may sound similar.

Our installed costs are truthfull and representative of the true end total you should expect to pay, there are no hidden costs.

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Solar Electric Systems                                                                                    The different electric configurations

1) Quick budgeting

2) Independence, off grid

3) Connected, grid tie

Solar Thermal Systems

Building Heating, & Hot water

About ordering

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Quick Budgeting

For quick budgeting for Installed systems both kit and custom use these simple formulas. The rule of thumb is smaller = higher installed cost per Watt, Larger = Lower installed cost so use 10 Kw as a middle point.

Off Grid -  (your desired watt size) X $15 to $25 = complete installed price

Example 20 KW (20,000 w) X 15 = $300,000

Grid Tie  -  (your desired watt size) X $7 to $11 = complete installed price

Example 9 KW (9,000 w) X 9 = $81,000

Hybrid - village and specially integrated systems have to be specifically priced.

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The House Boater	More info and brochure here
700 Watt Solar Array 16.5 KWH battery bank 2800 Watt inverter 12.499.00 (not including GST, shipping or installation)

The Woodsman	More info and brochure here
1400 Watt Solar Array (Expandable to 3000 without adding another charge controller) 28.8 KWH battery bank 4400 Watt inverter 15.999.00 (not including GST, shipping or installation)

The Pioneer - New Lower Price	More info and brochure here
3960 Watt Solar Array 52.7 KWH battery bank 2 - 3600 Watt inverters 120 / 240 volt output MPPT charge controller 32,999.00 (not including GST, shipping or installation)

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The Boomer - New Lower Price	More info and brochure here
7920 Watt Solar Array 156 KWH battery bank 4 - 3600 Watt inverters 120 / 240 volt output MPPT charge controllers ETL listed, Pre-programmed and ready to go 81,999.00 (not including GST, shipping or installation)

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Custom Systems

Connect 5000	More info and brochure here
4480 Watt Solar Array 5000 Watt inverter Roof top combiner / Wires to combiner   18.990.00 (not including GST, shipping or installation) To Order

More Grid Tie Systems coming soon

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Using the web Based check out here where offered is secure and convenient, depending on your choice, Pay Pal may require verification, We have found this to be extremely secure and use it ourselves.

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Knowing that you may prefer not to use a web-based checkout, just call us at 403-335-3330 with your choice of product and we will give you a final price including shipping.

Solar Thermal Systems

Boyd Hydronics now has the Solar Smart hydronics systems for complete integration of solar, conventional boiler and other additional heat sources into a centrally controlled unified package.

These systems were designed to be low maintenance, provide excellent occupant comfortable and get maximum benefit from the solar and renewable sources.

These systems integrate any thermal collector array (up to 240 tubes or 8 flat plate collectors in standard form and unlimited in a custom configuration.

Boyd now manufactures the core system and controls. Being pre designed for solar. The installing builder or tradesman can install their choice of collector and simply hook up to the Boyd Solar Smart system.

Link to the Boyd Hydronics web site to have a look at our full range of products and Solar Smart.

Reference Information

This information is for general knowledge only and may become out of date, we have left it for you to understand some of the ins and out as well as costs of solar collection.

• Double wall evacuated 30 tube collectors @ $2,500.00 each depending on angle of Frame

• Generally will be used with a boiler and a double wall coil tank for DHW (domestic hot water)

• Collection can be added in any amount but we find a "sweet spot" of about 6 to 8 (flat plate or 30 tube vacuum collectors) Below which the cost of infrastructure is a set cost and above which the infrastructure grows and costs considerably more. This "Sweet Spot" also happens to be a good size to augment many applications and is still effective without the extra costs of TES (Thermal Energy Storage).

• Collectors mounted on the ground or roof with insulated piping coming to the Solar Smart system. The collectors should be grouped properly to accomplish the correct temperature rise. (EG. Do Not put put 6 collectors in one row)

• Diversion or dump loops, for dumping excess heat during summer when no heat is used. More detail is included on Boyd hydronics .com

Complete Building heating is more easily and economically integrated on a new building. The cost of installation depends on many factors like mounting, The use of TES but it will most often triple the cost of the collectors by the time all is installed with a Solar Smart hydronic heating system, boiler and hot water tank. This holistic approach to solar heating design is very successful and still more cost effective and efficient than separate systems.  

A common question we get asked is. "What will it take to heat my House"?

A quick guide is take the Sq. feet area of the house divide by 100 and that is roughly how many collectors you will need,

EG: Average build 2600 square foot home, equals 26 collectors (actually, anywhere from 10 to 30 depending on the size and construction)

26 collectors at $2,500.00 each will cost about $65,000, times three will bring a complete system in at $180,000.

This example underlines the importance of the building efficiency with the high cost of renewable energy system in mind, and understandably this is why most people will augment conventional heating with solar to a greater or lesser degree.

Note:

• Systems must be installed by us or another certified installer and are not available in a do it yourself form.
• Because of the difficulty people have had building their own systems, code and safety issues, Boyd does not sell thermal components over the counter.