Financing, Overhead, and Profit: An In-Depth Discussion of Costs Associated with Third-Party Financing of Residential and Commercial Photovoltaic Systems

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1107462· OSTI ID:1107462

Feldman, David ^[1]; Friedman, Barry ^[1]; Margolis, Robert ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Previous work quantifying the non-hardware balance-of-system costs -- or soft costs -- associated with building a residential or commercial photovoltaic (PV) system has left a significant portion unsegmented in an 'other soft costs' category. This report attempts to better quantify the 'other soft costs' by focusing on the financing, overhead, and profit of residential and commercial PV installations for a specific business model. This report presents results from a bottom-up data-collection and analysis of the upfront costs associated with developing, constructing, and arranging third-party-financed residential and commercial PV systems. It quantifies the indirect corporate costs required to install distributed PV systems as well as the transactional costs associated with arranging third-party financing.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1107462
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP--6A20-60401
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
BALANCE-OF-SYSTEM COSTS
BENCHMARKING
BOS COSTS
Energy Analysis
FINANCING
INDIRECT CORPORATE COSTS
PV SYSTEM PRICE
SOFT COSTS
Solar Energy - Photovoltaics
THIRD-PARTY FINANCING
THIRD-PARTY-FINANCED