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There are a couple of things at play here. First of all, and most importantly, the quality of the panels you are getting for your 20k€, and thus the total amount of power they'll produce over their lifetime has gone up dramatically. Secondly while the cost of the panels has come down slightly, the cost of getting people to install them hasn't, and that has on the whole increased. If you where to install the solar panels as part of of either building the house or replacing/repairing an old roof that needed fixing anyway then it will be significantly cheaper.

Last I checked, a pallet of 45 350W panels FOB a US port was US$7200. Ought to be less on the Black Sea or the Danube.

But really your regional utility should be buying them.

Surely you can buy them from Tblisi like we do.