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Soft costs are increasingly dominating the total costs of installing solar energy systems. However, "we haven’t been thinking about soft technology design as systematically as we have for hardware. That needs to change." says Prof. Trancik of MIT. The study authors specifically identified "creating more efficient workflows for system installation" as one of the key strategies to bring soft costs down, especially around "processes that still happen in a very low-tech way through people communicating with one another."

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To improve solar and other clean energy tech, look beyond hardware A new analysis from MIT researchers reveals that soft technology, the processes to design and deploy a solar energy system, contributed far less to the total cost declines of solar installations than previously estimated. Their quantitative model shows that driving down solar energy costs in the fut...