When you look up at a rooftop solar installation, you see the hard costs. But this stuff isn’t what costs the most. In the U.S. these hard costs only make up about 20% of the total cost of a #system. The soft costs—that’s all the stuff that you don’t see—make up the remaining 80%.
“The soft costs are things like the cost of #permitting, the #overhead charged by the installer, and #inspection costs—even the cost of getting the #sale," Griffith said.

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#preventingcompetion
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