Solar Best Practices Guidelines Seek to Increase Investor Confidence
The Solar Access to Public Capital (SAPC) working group has released new best practices guidelines for solar photovoltaic systems with the goal of increasing investor…
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NREL: Using Low-Cost Financing to Purchase a Photovoltaic System Instead of Leasing Can Save Up to 30 Percent
Two new reports from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examine the economic options customers face when deciding how to finance commercial or…
Berkeley Lab: Price of Solar Energy in the U.S. Continues to Fall
The price of solar energy in the United States continues to fall substantially, according to the latest editions of two annual reports produced by the…
Energy Department Competition Relies on Crowdsourcing to Tackle Solar’s Market Barriers and Generate Ideas
To kick off the SunShot Initiative’s Grand Challenge Summit and Peer Review, the Energy Department has announced SunShot Catalyst, a new prize competition to spur…
Soft Costs Are Most Expensive Part of Solar Installations
Two detailed reports from the Energy Department‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) find that solar financing and other non-hardware costs—often referred to as “soft costs”—now…
Solar Industry Stakeholders Standardize Contracts
A working group representing solar industry stakeholders has developed standard contracts that should help lower transaction costs and make it easier to access low-cost financing…