NREL releases new roadmap to reducing solar PV 'soft costs' by 2020

(DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory) The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently issued a new report, "Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013," PDF funded by DOE's SunShot Initiative and written by NREL and Rocky Mountain Institute. The report builds off NREL's ongoing soft-cost benchmarking analysis and charts a path to achieve SunShot soft-cost targets of $0.65/W for residential systems a...