Full Title: Why Are Residential PV Prices in Germany So Much Lower Than in the United States? A Scoping Analysis
Author(s): Joachim Seel, Galen Barbose, and Ryan Wiser
Publisher(s): Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Publication Date: February 1, 2013
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Description (excerpt):
In February 2013, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative, in conjunction with LBNL, hosted a webinar during which the results of the survey analysis were presented. Notes on the February 2013 revision:
- The original September 2012 briefing included the results of a survey of 24 German PV installers conducted in early 2012
- One of the more surprising results was the extraordinarily low number of installation labor hours reported by survey respondents LBNL conducted a follow-up survey of 41 German installers in October 2012, focused solely on installation labor requirements
- The results of the follow-up survey are more in line with expectations (a mean response of 39 man-hours per system for on-site installation labor, compared to 7.5 hours per system in the original survey)
- This revised briefing includes the results of this follow-up survey, as well as a limited number of other updates (including Q3 2012 data on system pricing and market size)