Featured in Step on the gas – 12-2012

Campaign to slash red tape

Interview: Right across the PV industry it is well known that system prices are falling. In the U.S. one factor that is keeping installed costs artificially high is administrative and regulatory costs. Committed to cutting the red tape is the Solar Freedom Now coalition, which is being spearheaded by Barry Cinnamon, who spoke with pv magazine to outline what effect it could have and how the goal aligns with the 300 GW p.a. initiative.

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Jonathan Gifford

03 Dec 2012

What is the background to the Solar Freedom Now Initiative? The nucleus of the concept was formed when research started pouring in that the costs for photovoltaics in Germany were so much lower than the installation costs to comparable systems in the U.S. Over the last year there’s been good research by NREL, from Berkley …

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