Orange Button: A New Data Standard for Cheaper Solar?

How a new DOE program could shave solar costs by standardizing financial and performance data

by Jeff St. John
May 25, 2016

The Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative, launched in 2012 to achieve solar PV costs of $1 per watt, doesn’t just concentrate on driving down costs of solar panels and other hardware. Nearly two-thirds of the cost of solar projects come from “soft costs,” such as customer acquisition, permitting and labor.

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