leased solar/ hire purchase - really good idea

http://www.solarchoice.net.au/commercial/commercial-solar-power-tenders-management

This idea from Solar Choice seems to be a very sensible one. There is a comment in their blurb that the Operational Lease system has already enabled Solar Choice to supply and install several 100+kWp systems for commercial rooftops.

Incidentally India has just completed an auction for utility scale solar system with bidding going as low as 14cents Aus$/kWhr

http://www.evwind.es/noticias.php?id_not=15721

And finally, real installed prices for residential PV in Germany put new installations at about $1.30/Wp installed which for most of mainland Australia (17% capacity factor) gives a power Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) of 9.5 cents/kWhr (amortised over 20 years) or 14 cents/kWhr over 10 years http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/tech_lcoe.html