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Funding: Up to $7M Total
Open Date: 11/15/2011
Close Date: 03/05/2012
Funding Organization: Solar Energy Technologies Program
SunShot Incubator Program - Soft Cost Reduction
Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:25 PM EST
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Summary:
DOE is supporting the development of tools and approaches that will reduce balance of system non-hardware costs for solar energy systems. These soft costs--expenses associated with permitting, financing, interconnection, and inspection--can account for approximately half of the total expense of photovoltaic installations.
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#1 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:25 PM ESTThis is a good move. The price per watt of the panels has fallen tremendously from about $6/W to near $1/W. But, the soft costs have remained virtually unchanged. A 10 kW system for $20,000 would be a good price. This would generate around 1500 kWh a month average over the US. That is all to half of an individuals residential usage. And that is about the price of
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#2 - Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:57 PM ESTran out of time. That is about 1/3 of today's price before incentives. The size is about 25 feet by 44 feet.
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Every move is progress. It is slower than I would like but it is in the right direction. I think it will really speed up when the speculators create $6/gal gas over the Iran Straits of Hormuz bluff.
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Well.. it's a good thing my wife only travels 10 minutes to work..and everything is local for us within 3-4 minutes to the stores..If it hits $6 I might buy myself a horse.. lol
However, the $6 a gallon gas.. will also incorporate itself in the cost of goods.. I guess its Ramen Noodles for dinner..
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