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Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by epistasis on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:58PM (#13759057)
It's difficult to get single numbers for these, due to the difficulties that you're listing. I'm not sure that it's stranger than any other analysis out there, such as EIA. I believe it's slightly more focused on where to invest if you wanted to build one more of something, which fits with Lazard's other focuses.

It's not surprising that residential PV is so expensive. First off, it's all small custom jobs which means that labor is high, which is one of the larger costs of solar. Second, residential PV is all behind the meter, so it can still be a cost win for consumers since they pay transmission costs from the utility.

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Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by spangry on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:09AM (#13761337)
Good point. From Lazard's perspective it also probably makes sense not to account for some of these things (e.g. infrastructure cost, site remediation etc.) as it's unlikely these kinds of costs will be borne by a private investor.
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