Benchmarking non-hardware balance of system (soft) costs for U.S. photovoltaic systems, using a bottom-up approach and installer survey / Barry Friedman [and five others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Barry, author.

Contributor:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

NREL/TP ; 6A20-60412.

NREL/TP ; 6A20-60412

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photovoltaic power systems--Costs.

Photovoltaic power systems.

Overhead costs.

Solar energy--Economic aspects.

Solar energy.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 42 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Golden, CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013.

Summary:

This report presents results from the second U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored, bottom-up data-collection and analysis of non-hardware balance-of-system costs -- often referred to as 'business process' or 'soft' costs -- for U.S. residential and commercial photovoltaic (PV) systems. In service to DOE's SunShot Initiative, annual expenditure and labor-hour-productivity data are analyzed to benchmark 2012 soft costs related to (1) customer acquisition and system design (2) permitting, inspection, and interconnection (PII). We also include an in-depth analysis of costs related to financing, overhead, and profit. Soft costs are both a major challenge and a major opportunity for reducing PV system prices and stimulating SunShot-level PV deployment in the United States. The data and analysis in this series of benchmarking reports are a step toward the more detailed understanding of PV soft costs required to track and accelerate these price reductions.

Notes:

"October 2013."

Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 14, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38).

OCLC:

872671377