Unless its a really remote location, its not worth it. kyocera make a lot of stuff, and the missus tells me there are already companies doing that in davao at least. its much much more expensive to do properly than a visit to maplin
http://www.kyocerasolar.com/products/indproducts.html
The solar-thermal plants (www.abengoasolar.com) are cheaper and seem to be where the money is going.
I'm sure you know about city hall http://www.lda.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.2493
cost £540,000
power 50,000kWh (estimated per year)
say the cost of electicity is 10p /KWh (was 8.8p on my bill last quarter). That is £5000 worth of electricity. So it takes 108 years to repay for the project, plus maintanance, cleaning etc etc.. it just is not viable. Unless electricity goes up 10fold that is
