Using Residential Solar PV Quote Data to Analyze the Relationship Between Installer Pricing and Firm Size

Eric OShaughnessy; Robert Margolis

Using Residential Solar PV Quote Data to Analyze the Relationship Between Installer Pricing and Firm Size

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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 language	American English
Number of pages	2
State	Published - 2017

NREL Publication Number

NREL/FS-6A20-68141

Keywords

installers
market power
photovoltaics
PV
quotes
solar

UN SDGs

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UN SDGs

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