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What proportion of the costs are down to permitting?

• lazide 2y ago
  From 50% (or more) to 5% (or less) depending on local jurisdiction and scale. If they want it to happen and aren’t greedy? It’s rarely a major problem. Otherwise, sky is the limit. I know of a couple sizable projects that finally got cancelled because the local AHJ (authority having jurisdiction) finally just got too greedy. In one case they threw on an extra couple hundred grand worth of city park improvements as a requirement on a couple million dollar (small) project. Developer ended up walking away, as that was the fourth time they did that. Some folks just can’t help but make it lose/lose.
  • naasking 2y ago
    So it sounds like large scale deployments have a larger proportion of the cost be due to permitting, and smaller scale (like on a house), would be fairly low by comparison.
    • lazide 2y ago
      Not really. It depends on how hard you can be squeezed, and how much they want to squeeze you. Most large scale installations (if they’re smart) will be in areas where the planning authorities don’t have a lot of leverage. Most residential installations (if they’re smart) will be in areas where it’s politically untenable to squeeze homeowners for outrageous fees. Then you have the other places. Either way, even large fees for a larger installation will be a small percentage of the total. $2000 worth of fees for a homeowner will be outrageous percentage wise.
• PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
  For my residential 6.6kW ground mount array, less than 0.9%