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<br class=""><div><div class="">On Jul 27, 2015, at 11:21 PM, Peter Parrish <<a href="mailto:peter.parrish@calsolareng.com" class="">peter.parrish@calsolareng.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)" class=""><style class=""><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">I recently read a short piece that caught me up short, and I quote:<br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">“The fast dropping cost of solar, while a huge boon to the adoption of solar PV, has counter-intuitively altered design parameters. No longer is the north-facing roof considered unusable because limited application in less-than optimal orientations can still show a positive net benefit. Arrays are thus designed now with elements or sub-arrays in these locations, increasing overall kW installation while reducing the energy production per capacity installed. This might have been anticipated based on sheer economic analysis from a users perspective, but so long has solar been expensive that these less optimal orientations were never seriously considered.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">I doubt that the individual who wrote this piece came to these conclusions him/herself. Does anyone know of a recent article that argued this perspective? Is this an emerging design practice? If so, I’d like to know more about it. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""> </span></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""><span style="mso-list:Ignore" class="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">Peter <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">President, SolarGnosis<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">1107 Fair Oaks Ave., Suite 351<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">South Pasadena, CA 91030<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">(323) 839-6108<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""><a href="mailto:petertor@pobox.com" class="">petertor@pobox.com</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""> </span></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>