{"id":7353,"date":"2016-08-15T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/sustainable-women-series-driving-down-solar-soft-costs-a-70-percent-reduction-in-5-years.html"},"modified":"2016-08-15T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:47:00","slug":"sustainable-women-series-driving-down-solar-soft-costs-a-70-percent-reduction-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/sustainable-women-series-driving-down-solar-soft-costs-a-70-percent-reduction-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Women Series: Driving Down Solar &#8216;Soft&#8217; Costs: A 70 Percent Reduction in 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launched by the Department of Energy in February 2011, the SunShot Initiative was designed to make solar energy cost-competitive by 2020. In 2010, the cost of one solar watt was $3.80. The SunShot project was attempting to reduce soft costs \u2013 non-technology costs \u2013 to $1 per watt or $0.06 per kilowatt-hour, an almost 75 percent decrease in the 2010 cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched by the Department of Energy in February 2011, the SunShot Initiative was designed to make solar energy cost-competitive by 2020. In 2010, the cost of one solar watt was $3.80. The SunShot project was attempting to reduce soft costs &ndash; non-technology costs &ndash; to $1 per watt or $0.06 per kilowatt-hour, an almost 75 percent decrease in the 2010 cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[574,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}