Comments on: Distributed Solar Power Gets More Affordable http://cleantechnica.com/2011/10/31/distributed-solar-power-gets-more-affordable/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/10/31/distributed-solar-power-gets-more-affordable/#comment-106776 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:32:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=31822#comment-106776 What is it going to take to start bringing down the cost of small (<2kW) systems? Component prices have greatly fallen, but installed rates are holding high.

Is this size-caused inefficiencies or installer greed? Open Neighborhood has been able to get their installed rate to under $5/watt by group purchasing and installation contracting. That suggests that installers are taking too much profit, not running lean and mean.

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BTW, there seems to be a major breakthrough in silicon wafer processing that will soon lead to very major wafer price decreases thus further speeding the cost decline for solar.

http://www.nrel.gov/news/features/feature_detail.cfm/feature_id=1629

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