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According to the quote, roughly 30% of households can

monetize the the 30% ITC.  Note: As you lower installed

costs you dramatically raise the accessibility.  



"...those with $75,000 income per household would probably have a tax liability to monetise the ITC tax credit, an easier process with a tax return than filling out a FedEx shipping form."

Will 2016 be the end of the roof for third party lease models?

This article slings and arrows the TPO model something fierce. It also answers the question: Why does the fleshless TPO model get so much attention? Answer. Greedy Charlies.

Compensating For Something?

Jinnis are awesome... Asked for a Giant Bronze... Got a Building.... Shit...

QOTD

The Siege of Sparta, by Jean-Baptiste Topino-Lebrun.

"Die Schutzzölle werden ein Pyrrhussieg der wenigen Solarfirmen um EU ProSun sein, den sie gegen den erklärten Willen der großen Masse der europäischen Solarfirmen angezettelt haben"

Hans-Josef Fell

QOTD

I’m expecting that the low costs being attained by the technology right now is exciting for everyone involved in the industry, so despite the present period of financial hardship, I think everyone has realized that the technology has got to the stage where it’s got a guaranteed future.

Martin Green - Rock Star

QOTD

"We are therefore on the threshold of it being more cost-effective for German industrial companies, which consume between 500 and 2000 MWh, to use PV energy they have generated themselves, than to obtain energy from the grid at a price of 0.125 euro/kWh."

Study, Levelized Cost of Electricity from Renewable Energies - Christoph Kost et al. - Fraunhofer - May 2012

Installed costs in Germany have fallen by 20% since the Fraunhofer report was published last year... i.e. Industrial companies have crossed the threshold of cost-effectiveness.

Love Stream

Love is like the Sun

Both create energy out of matter
Both cycle in funny ways
Both consume and give
Both are forever and ever will be

Economics of Photoelectricity - May 2013 Update

Shipwreck of the SS American Star off Fuerteventura

Economics of Photoelectricity - May 2013 Update

I updated several LCOE models that have been in prototype mode up to this point. The updated LCOE models cover Diesel, Wind, Fossil and Nuclear electricity production costs.  The Assumption sets that feed the LCOE models have also been updated. I've primarily been working on the Fossil Model so there may be some blatant problems with the Diesel, Wind and Nuclear calculations - As always send me a note if you find something wrong.

I would encourage anyone who thinks photoelectricity is too expensive to run the numbers on the costs of new coal electricity - You're in for a surprise.