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

Feldman, D. ; Friedman, B. ; Margolis, R.

关键词: BENCHMARKING;    SOFT COSTS;    FINANCING;    THIRD-PARTY FINANCING;    BALANCE-OF-SYSTEM COSTS;    BOS COSTS;    THIRD-PARTY-FINANCED;    PV SYSTEM PRICE;    INDIRECT CORPORATE COSTS;    Energy Analysis;    Solar Energy - Photovoltaics;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1107462
RP-ID  :  NREL/TP-6A20-60401
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1107462

学科分类：再生能源与代替技术

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

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.