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Solar Power for the World
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Solar Power for the World

by Wolfgang Palz
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
800 pages
22h 43m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Solar Power for the World
Introduction to SolarPowerfortheWorld 21
System price: $5/W
4 kW system: $20,000
Utility “Austin Energy’s” support: $2.5/W = $10,000
30% federal tax credit: $3000
$50 to $60 monthly utility savings
Payback time of 8 years
The US states have the RPS as overall guide for support. It can
be implemented in different ways, as rebate programme of public
utilities or state agencies, or cash incentives. Apart from these
incentives for the up-front cost of a PV system, states may promote
PV as part of the RPS Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECS).
Those certificates are issued like for the FITs per kWh produced
by certified and registered PV systems. ...
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ISBN: 9789814411875