Between the improved conversion efficiencies, manufacturing gains, decreased inverter costs and improvements in other balance of system (BOS) costs, there is still room for substantial price improvement.

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The business cases that were approved by the treasury include a further 4 billion pounds of costs, which will be met locally to assimilate technology and to put training in place data conversion, and so on.

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Newham would be willing to consider this but probably not for the full amount, which means West Ham must raise the rest of the money themselves or strike a deal with the government to finance the remaining conversion costs.

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