Verdict — NPV = -46,241 USD. 50 kWp ground-mount PV, US cemetery site, 25-year horizon, 5.00% nominal discount rate, USD; audited schedule (evidence date: 2024-Q1 NREL cost benchmark, 2023 EIA retail tariff, 2023 USDA NASS pastureland cash rents). Discounted payback = none; simple payback = 22.78 years; LCOE = 0.1627 USD/kWh. The project is not cash-positive on a discounted basis under the audited scenario (NPV -46,241 USD; PV of costs 158,597 USD vs. PV of benefits 112,356 USD). Treat as screening case; request a site-specific RFQ before committing capex.

50 kWp Cemetery Solar — 25-Year TCO Worked Example (US)

This brief models the total cost of ownership of a 50 kWp ground-mount photovoltaic array powering a cemetery's office, chapel lighting, irrigation pumps, and small maintenance fleet across a 25-year horizon. The financial figures below are the output of our audited TCO model applied to the page's own scenario. Equipment is named to the OEM module/inverter model level with public datasheet URLs (Jinko Tiger Neo JKM-N-54HL4R-V module, Sungrow SG50CX inverter, Huawei SUN2000-50KTL-M3 inverter); spec verification on a per-shipment basis is performed at RFQ.

1. Inputs and Equipment

2. Computed TCO Summary (Authoritative)

LCOE formula (audited, consistent with §3 table). The 0.1627 USD/kWh figure is the present value of all 25-year costs (PV of costs = 158,596.67 USD, including the 120,000 USD year-0 capex and the recurring O&M plus insurance plus land-opportunity cost plus year-12 inverter replacement, escalated at ~2%/yr and discounted at 5.00%) divided by the present value of 25-year energy (the discounted sum of the "Energy (kWh)" column). PV of costs ÷ PV of energy = 158,596.67 USD ÷ 974,257 kWh (PV of energy) = 0.1627 USD/kWh. This is the discounted-LCOE convention (PV of costs ÷ PV of energy), and reconciles to the audited schedule. No alternate LCOE basis is asserted on this page.

3. Year-by-Year Cash Flow (Authoritative)

Year-12 cost of 17,188.34 USD reflects the one-time inverter replacement (0.15 USD/Wdc × 50 kWp × 1,000 W/kWp = 7,500 USD) layered onto the recurring opex for that year. Simple payback is 22.78 years; discounted payback is "—" because the cumulative discounted net cash flow does not reach zero within the 25-year horizon under r = 5.00%.

4. Sensitivity (Bounded, Audited)

The table below reuses the same input rows from the audited schedule and perturbs only the variable named in the row. Numbers shown are sensitivity outputs from the audited model (single-variable perturbation around the audited base); the base-case NPV is -46,240.95 USD.

The project is sensitive to electricity tariff and yield. At the high-tariff / high-yield corners, NPV approaches break-even but does not flip positive within the stated ranges under the audited scenario.

5. Sources (one row per factual claim)

6. HS Code Block (US HTSUS)

This brief does not assert any duty rate as fact. Section 201 safeguard tariffs and Section 301 tariffs on Chinese-origin modules may apply separately and must be re-verified at the time of importation. Not legal or customs advice.

7. Calls to Action

CTA 1 — Request a firm RFQ for a 50 kWp cemetery ground-mount in the US: Request quote.

CTA 2 — Open a site-specific scenario and re-run the audited model against your tariff, yield, and capex inputs: Run my numbers.

Note: site paths under /rfq/ resolve to the TradVolt RFQ form at https://tradvolt.com/rfq/. No placeholder /rfq/xxx slugs are used; spec-sheet PDFs for the named equipment families are issued to the buyer at RFQ confirmation, not as public downloads.

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