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Solar Photovoltaic Financing: Residential Sector Deployment
NREL Technical Report: NREL/TP-6A2-44853. By Jason Coughlin and Karlynn Cory. March 2009.
This report examines incentives available to reduce the cost of owning and operating a PV system and creative ways to combine them into a comprehensive financial package for residential PV systems. This report explains new financing mechanisms such as solar leases, residential power purchase agreements, property tax assessment models, renewable energy credit-based loans and community-based PV deployment models that are being offered by states and municipalities to support residential PV deployment.
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http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy09osti/44853.pdf