{"id":229633,"date":"2016-10-12T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=5ca05ce96518351e0c8b94d7621dd3fb"},"modified":"2016-10-12T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T12:25:59","slug":"does-cheaper-solar-mean-we-can-forget-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/does-cheaper-solar-mean-we-can-forget-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Cheaper Solar Mean We Can Forget Efficiency?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    The ramifications of the falling cost of photovoltaic systems        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/does-cheaper-solar-mean-we-can-forget-efficiency\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/photovoltaic-array-solar-electricity-richard-levine-550.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rooftop photovoltaic array\" width=\"144\" height=\"83\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Solar energy has sex appeal. If you want to show the world you&#8217;re doing something to reduce pollution, you put <span>photovoltaic<\/span><span>(PV) Generation of electricity directly from sunlight. A photovoltaic cell has no moving parts; electrons are energized by sunlight and result in current flow.<\/span> (<span>PV<\/span><span>Photovoltaics. Generation of electricity directly from sunlight. A photovoltaic (PV) cell has no moving parts; electrons are energized by sunlight and result in current flow.<\/span>) panels on your roof to generate clean electricity. Even better, you drive a plug-in hybrid or an all-electric car and charge your car&#8217;s batteries with your clean solar electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for solar enthusiasts is the cost of installing a solar electric system on your home just keeps falling and falling. Let&#8217;s take a look at some data and then ask if it&rsquo;s time to abandon energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/does-cheaper-solar-mean-we-can-forget-efficiency\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,11417,3680,14199,4986,3143,905],"class_list":["post-229633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-photovoltaic","tag-pv","tag-pv-cost","tag-solar-cost","tag-solar-electricity","tag-solar-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}