U.S. Department of Energy

Clean Power Finance

Project Overview
Subprogram Photovoltaics
Recipient Category Small Business
Funding (Up To) $1,000,000.00
Recipient Cost Share $1,155,950.00
Location San Francisco, CA 94105
Award Number DE-EE0005837
Funding Opportunity Incubator
Contact Name Kirsten Hoefer

Online Brokerage for Customer Acquisitions for Solar

Start Date: 6/15/2012
Completion Date: 12/15/2013

DOE is supporting the development of tools and approaches that will reduce balance of system non-hardware costs for solar energy systems. These soft costs--expenses associated with permitting, financing, interconnection, and inspection--can account for approximately half of the total expense of photovoltaic installations.

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