Orange Button: A New Data Standard for Cheaper Solar? May 27, 2016How a new DOE program could shave solar costs by standardizing financial and performance databy Jeff St. John May 25, 2016The 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.http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/orange-button-a-new-data-standard-for-cheaper-solar ShareShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on LinkedIn