Tag: soft costs
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EagleView can quickly quantify solar potential for any home via SolarReady
Soft costs are the bane of the home solar industry, and customer acquisition costs are a big reason why. Gathering a plentiful amount of motivated, in-bound leads can be tough enough, depending on the market. But then there are challenges (and costs!) associated with customer education and truly understanding the solar suitability of that site……
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Deployment operations management systems tackle soft costs in utility-scale solar
This column was contributed by Fadi Abourjeily, Energy Solutions Product Manager for SiteTracker. Plunging solar photovoltaic system costs – down 64%, 69%, and 82% for residential, commercial-rooftop, and utility-scale PV systems since 2010, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory – haven’t come with corresponding drops in the costs of designing, permitting, installing, commissioning, and……
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Solar Letters launches with mission to automate PE stamps for residential installers
There are currently many costly inefficiencies within the solar letter and PE stamp process in the residential solar industry, with most firms still performing calculations manually or using Word or Excel documents. All of these methods have been tested and proven to be highly error prone, particularly with non-degreed engineers manually completing forty to fifty……
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Soft cost progress: Over 300 local governments have streamlined solar permitting thanks to SolSmart program
We hype solar technology innovation often as the path forward to a renewable energy future, but the technology we have is already pretty awesome. The bigger opportunity to grow solar is now in small-scale local progress — cutting permitting red tape and normalizing solar systems within the zeitgeist. We arguedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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SunPower to give homeowners the ability to design their own solar systems with Design Studio
Historically, understanding a home’s solar potential required talking to a sales consultant or compromising with one-size-fits-all online calculators. With a new web application called Design Studio, SunPower is looking to give U.S. homeowners the power to create their own solar system design automatically in seconds. In less than 30 seconds,Read More — Solar Builder magazine