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Two detailed reports from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) find that solar financing and other non-hardware costs—often referred to as “soft costs”—now comprise…

The Energy Department’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently issued a new report, “Non-Hardware (‘Soft’) Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013–2020,”…