Featured in Turkey – 04-2014

Research to slash BOS costs

BOS hardware: Fostered in large part by the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot program, several new projects are expected to begin commercialization by year’s end with promises of up to 75% combined balance of system cost reduction.
By
Charles W. Thurston

A whirlwind of both academic and industrial PV research and development is bringing balance of system (BOS) hardware costs down significantly, with both direct and indirect impact on BOS soft costs. This is critical to overall U.S. residential and commercial system cost reduction, since BOS soft costs now represent nearly two thirds of the overall …

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