Soft Costs of Photovoltaic Systems: Analyses of Non-Hardware Costspe the title here

[BOOK DESCRIPTION]
This text presents results from the first US Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored, bottom-up data-collection and analysis of non-hardware balance-of-system costs - often referred to as business process or soft costs - for residential and commercial photovoltaic (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. It accompanies the recent 'National Renewable Energy Laboratory' soft cost benchmarking report (2013), which quantifies all the non-hardware balance-of-system costs associated with building a residential or commercial PV system.

[TABLE OF CONTENTS]

-Preface;

-Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance of System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems Using a Data-Driven Analysis from PV Installer Survey Results;

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

-Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance-of-System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems, Using a Bottom-Up Approach & Installer Survey: Second Edition; Index.