Using Residential Solar PV Quote Data to Analyze the Relationship Between Installer Pricing and Firm Size: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Eric OShaughnessy, Robert Margolis, Robert Margolis

Research output: NRELPresentation

Abstract

We use residential solar photovoltaic (PV) quote data to study the role of firm size in PV installer pricing. We find that large installers (those that installed more than 1,000 PV systems in any year from 2013 to 2015) quote higher prices for customer-owned systems, on average, than do other installers. The results suggest that low prices are not the primary value proposition of large installers.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages24
StatePublished - 2017

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PR-6A20-68153

Keywords

  • installer pricing
  • market power
  • photovoltaic
  • PV
  • residential solar
  • solar

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