Abstract
The goals of this project were to quantify the rate and/or total expected labor expenditure of engineers designing solar arrays and electricians installing solar across a spectrum of project sizes and configurations. Specifically, procuring and analyzing labor data from solar engineering firms relating to the amount of time it takes an engineer to design a solar project, the amount of time it takes an engineer to perform a wiring or stringing design, the amount of time it takes an electrician to install a solar project and the amount of time it takes electricians to install the strings of a solar array. Then these details could be analyzed to evaluate labor intensity for solar design/installation. These goals were unable to be completed because the participant was unable to collect the necessary data for analysis.
| Original language | American English |
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| Number of pages | 8 |
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| State | Published - 2024 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/TP-7A40-92239
Keywords
- CRADA
- electrical design
- electrical design labor
- labor cost
- PV
- structural design
- structural design labor
- system design
- system design labor