Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013-2020

Kristen Ardani

doi:10.2172/1096122

Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013-2020

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Abstract

The objective of this analysis is to roadmap the cost reductions and innovations necessary to achieve the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative's total soft-cost targets by 2020. The roadmap focuses on advances in four soft-cost areas: (1) customer acquisition; (2) permitting, inspection, and interconnection (PII); (3) installation labor; and (4) financing. Financing cost reductionsare in terms of the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for financing PV system installations, with real-percent targets of 3.0% (residential) and 3.4% (commercial).

Original language	American English
Number of pages	85
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1096122
State	Published - 2013

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NREL/TP-7A40-59155

Keywords

commercial
DOE
National Renewable Energy Department
non-hardware costs
NREL
photovoltaics (PV)
PV
residential
soft costs
SunShot initiative

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