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Title: Using Machine Learning and Data Analysis to Improve Customer Acquisition and Marketing in Residential Solar

Abstract

High customer acquisition costs remain a persistent challenge in the U.S. residential solar industry. Effective customer acquisition in the residential solar market is increasingly achieved with the help of data analysis and machine learning, whether that means more targeted advertising, understanding customer motivations, or responding to competitors. New research by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Vanderbilt University, University of Pennsylvania, and the California Center for Sustainable Energy and funded through the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion (SEEDS) program demonstrates novel computational methods that can help drive down costs in the residential solar industry.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1402560
Report Number(s):
NREL/FS-6A20-70077
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Program Document
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; SEEDS; Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion; machine learning; data analysis; soft costs; solar soft costs; balance of system; solar balance of system

Citation Formats

Sigrin, Benjamin O. Using Machine Learning and Data Analysis to Improve Customer Acquisition and Marketing in Residential Solar. United States: N. p., 2017. Web.
Sigrin, Benjamin O. Using Machine Learning and Data Analysis to Improve Customer Acquisition and Marketing in Residential Solar. United States.
Sigrin, Benjamin O. 2017. "Using Machine Learning and Data Analysis to Improve Customer Acquisition and Marketing in Residential Solar". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1402560.
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abstractNote = {High customer acquisition costs remain a persistent challenge in the U.S. residential solar industry. Effective customer acquisition in the residential solar market is increasingly achieved with the help of data analysis and machine learning, whether that means more targeted advertising, understanding customer motivations, or responding to competitors. New research by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Vanderbilt University, University of Pennsylvania, and the California Center for Sustainable Energy and funded through the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion (SEEDS) program demonstrates novel computational methods that can help drive down costs in the residential solar industry.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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