Although the cost of equipment has dropped 70% in recent years, soft costs can contribute to almost 30% of residential PV prices. Customer acquisition and engineering are two large factors to this puzzle.

 

Join the Illinois Solar Energy Association for presentations from Solar Chicago and GreenLancer on how your business can tackle these issues and grow solar in Illinois.

 

Solar Chicago is a group buy program established by the City of Chicago and Vote Solar. This fall, the program contracted over 600kw of residential through bulk purchase. The team will be presenting a brief update on the program and some initial lessons learned. 

GreenLancer.com reduces “soft costs” in engineering and permitting through an e-commerce platform that makes PV engineering, permitting, and interconnection support simple, efficient & reliable regardless of jurisdiction.

GreenLancer streamlines the engineering process and dramatically reduces the contractor’s soft costs.

The website uses automated workflow and crowdsourcing to digitally manufacture engineering documents. Standardizing workflow has resulted in mass production for a wide variety of industries. When applied to the photovoltaic (PV) industry, standardized workflow combined with crowdsourcing allows GreenLancer to consistently assure the fastest, most economical, and highest quality engineering for all 50 states.

GreenLancer's standardized deliverables use industry best practices to satisfy the documentation requirements of a project through development, permitting, construction, and commissioning. Through the web, we are able to bring speed and quality to the project development process.

GreenLancer is a member of the Quicken Loans family of companies.