{"id":4620,"date":"2015-08-18T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T04:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T03:48:51","slug":"fall-in-rooftop-solar-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/fall-in-rooftop-solar-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop Solar Power Cost Reduction Not From Module Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s fairly well-known that US rooftop solar costs have been going down rapidly year on year. Up to a certain point, this phenomenon was largely due to continual reduction in the price of solar panel modules. But that is not the case today\u2026 the major cause for the downward trend in rooftop solar costs is the fall in installation costs, financing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>To understand this graphically, look at this chart from\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gtmresearch.com\">GTM Research<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4616 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices.png 640w, https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices-100x75.png 100w, https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices-200x149.png 200w, https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices-450x336.png 450w, https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fallinrooftopsolarprices-600x448.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are a solar power contractor, there is yet another place where you can cut costs: engineering design. To find out how you can get system design and engineering done by us at a fraction of what it costs you now, including getting a free sample, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/solar-designer.htm\">our solar power design services page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to designing your solar power systems!<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucky2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"lucky2\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucky2_thumb.gif\" alt=\"lucky2\" width=\"240\" height=\"58\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a22f003f-157c-4803-8e20-c2fbf52fe53c\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"font-size: 8pt; float: none; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/solar+power+design\" rel=\"tag\">solar power design<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rooftop+solar+power\" rel=\"tag\">rooftop solar power<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/falling+solar+power+costs\" rel=\"tag\">falling solar power costs<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/tmg\" rel=\"tag\">tmg<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/the+magnum+group\" rel=\"tag\">the magnum group<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/lucky+balaraman\" rel=\"tag\">lucky balaraman<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s fairly well-known that US rooftop solar costs have been going down rapidly year on year. Up to a certain point, this phenomenon was largely due to continual reduction in the price of solar panel modules. But that is not the case today\u2026 the major cause for the downward trend in rooftop solar costs is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}